Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:11:21 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 12:32:26, Matthew Hull wrote: >On May 14, 2004 at 12:16:57, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On May 13, 2004 at 20:17:42, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>Not anyone can play. Only people who have several thousand dollars and two >weeks >>to burn can play. I don't know many people in that situation, or at >least if >>they are in that situation and participated, the locks would be >changed when >>they returned home from the trip :) >> >>FYI, travel costs and hardware are sponsored by the organisation. > >No, they are not. $2000 dollars is not sponsored by the organization, neither >the hotel, nor the paid time off for two weeks. The entire situation is >calculated to discourage American participation. The physical format is >calculated to permit cheating, as was done with the illeagal throwing of a >drawn game to the eventual "winner". It is a corrupt establishment designed to >cater to European interests, and to snub Americans. >It is therefore an irrelevant contest, just like the FIDE World Championship is >completely irrelevant. >:) > >CCT is now the venue for true WORLD comptetition, instead of just European >competition. No it is not European competition. Israel is not in Europe and some programs from Israel are going to participate. Uri
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