Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:27:00 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 13:18:05, Matthew Hull wrote: >On May 14, 2004 at 13:11:21, Uri Blass wrote: > >>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. > >Yes, it is European because there are two European commercial programs authored >in Israel. The interests are all European. I would like to know what 2 programs do you talk about? I guess that one is Junior because of the connection to chessbase(Germany) but Junior is the only Israeli commercial program so I do not understand what is the second program that you talk about. Uri
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