Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 13:02:53 05/19/04
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On May 19, 2004 at 15:55:04, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 19, 2004 at 14:31:41, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>On May 19, 2004 at 13:29:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On May 19, 2004 at 06:14:12, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >>> >>>>On May 19, 2004 at 06:07:45, Bryan Hofmann wrote: >>>> >>>>>On May 19, 2004 at 05:33:50, Richard Pijl wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On May 19, 2004 at 05:05:54, Jouni Uski wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Number 1 favourite is missing, why? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Jouni >>>>>> >>>>>>Hydra is officially from the UAE. As I understood the sponsors do not allow >>>>>>Hydra to participate in an event in Israel. >>>>>>Richard. >>>>> >>>>>Someone please tell me that this is a rumor or missunderstanding. They banned a >>>>>chess engine from participation due to the country of its creator? >>>> >>>>Exactly the opposite. We (organizers) told the Hydra team that they are welcomed >>>>to play in Israel under the UAE flag. But apparently their sponsors decided that >>>>they don't want to play in Israel. >>>> >>>>Last time an engine was banned from participation due to the country of its >>>>creator was in Jakarta WMCCC 1996. The Junior team was not allowed to play there >>>>because Junior is an Israeli program. >>> >>>I was under the impression that was not exactly the truth, the whold truth and >>>nothing but the truth. In fact, Junior was expected there. I received a phone >>>call in the wee hours of the morning from Bruce Moreland, asking me to help him >>>contact Amir since they had not shown up. >>> >>>I believe this was a case of "they didn't feel welcome and chose not to attend >>>for that reason." IE I can't really fault someone for not wanting to fly a UAE >>>flag in the middle of Israel either. >>> >>>So, IMHO it was more a matter of they didn't participate for many good reasons, >>>but I don't think they were _prevented_ from participating... >> >>Based on what I have read and heard, it was made clear to them that they cannot >>play under the Israeli flag in Jakarta. In other words, they were prevented from >>participation. Of course Amir or Shay can correct me if I'm wrong. > >Probably was (a) a sane decision to not fly an Israeli flag there and (b) a >reasonable decision for them not to attend if they could not. As I said, a bit >of both... > I quoted Shay Bushinsky in the following post: http://talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?366082 Based on that, it was not a decision on behalf of the Junior team not to attend, they were simply *banned* from participation. > >> >> >> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>I don't want >>>>>to lead the discussion into a political debate here but if the above statement >>>>>is true, this bigotry should not be condoned and further posting of this event >>>>>should not be allowed here.
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