Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 03:26:41 06/20/03
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On June 20, 2003 at 06:06:44, Michael Vox wrote: > >http://www.rochadekuppenheim.de/heco/index.html > >19th June, 2003 > >A couple of years ago, there was a strange tale reported of a top player playing >in a big open in Slovenia, who wished to be simply known as "GM 2595". > >The GM in question turned out to be Russia's Evgeny Sveshnikov, who took the >radical stance of trying to change his name as he saw it as a threat to his >livelihood with all his games appearing on chess databases. His argument was >that it made it easier for weaker opponents to prepare against him in the large >European Opens he had to compete in to earn a living, following the demise of >the Soviet Union. > >Apparently Sveshnikov was at it again, and was behind a revolt at the recent >Russian Team Championships that took place May 16-25 in Tolghiatti (part of the >Penza Region), as the players voted not to publish the scores of the games on >the internet. > >After the event, however, several anonymous players passed on their daily >bulletins to allow the games to be duly published on websites such as Mark >Crowther's The Week In Chess. The real-time coverage of an important event such >as this with a star-studded line-up would not have done any harm to the >popularity of the game, and could even have encouraged a big-time sponsor. > >Some of the top players taking part in the 14-team event included Peter Svidler, >Alexander Khalifman, Alexander Grischuk, Aleksei Dreev, Alexander Morozevich, >Sergei Rublevsky and even the timeless Viktor Korchnoi. > >Surprisingly, no Moscow team made it to the six-team 'A' Finals after the >preliminary group stages, and the event was won by Ladja-Kazan-1000 (Rublevsky, >Bologan, Smirin, Kharlov, Vaganian etc) ahead of Nornickel (Dreev, Malakhov, >Zvjaginsev, Onischuk etc) and Tomsk-400 (Morozevich, Khalifman, Filippov etc) >and St. Petersburg (Svidler, Sakaev, Volkov, Korchnoi etc.). If I were a GM and had to live from my tournament games, I would work for the protection of my game scores! It is crazy, that we regard the scores as freeware. Only because we can eaisily copy the moves, these moves are NOT free. Of course the move e4 is free, but the information that I played it against Kasparov is NOT free. You should pay for it. Anonymous players or spectators who distribute my moves would be hit by the law of copyright because I have the right over my moves in a game. Look, people often have difficulties to understand: they say moves are not copyrighted. I say that the specific moves of a game ARE copyrighted and original. We should support the lives of our GM. Rolf Tueschen
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