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Subject: Re: List of participants for WCCC

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 15:17:37 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.

Do you seriously believe that, or are you just trying to inflame our European
colleagues?

anthony

>>
>>--
>>GCP



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