Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 17:31:25 05/14/04
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On May 14, 2004 at 18:26:54, Amir Ban 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's not. I will come to CCT to experiment, if I come at all. Others don't >bother to show up, and why should they ? It's not a major event. > >CCT is a bit like Biel: crowded and noisy, with a few good players. But don't >mistake Biel for Wijk an Zee. > >Which reminds me that no major chess tournament takes place in the USA nowadays. >All the major tournaments are in Europe, but I don't hear you saying that >Kaidanov and Stripunsky are the world's best. > >Amir Quite a few top chess events have been held in the U.S. - '95 Kasparov-Anand, '89 or so Kasparov-Karpov, '99 FIDE knockouts, three man-machine championships. But no WCCCs. Ok it's probably just a coincidence - but IMO the complaints are understandable. Vas
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