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Subject: Re: CHCT 2005 - The event is cancelled.

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 18:00:45 02/28/05

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On February 28, 2005 at 14:14:51, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On February 28, 2005 at 12:36:26, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>Unbelievable.  It seems to me "somebody" must have complained about the
>>tournament for them to react the way they did.  I wonder who?
>
>The only thing I can think of was that I emailed icc@chessclub.com to request
>that in the next mailing of an ICC news letter, if CHCT could be included.
>
>That was late yesterday, and when I woke up this morning, I had the email
>waiting.
>
>I immediately went on the server and spoke to Marty (LateKnight), and he was
>very abrupt, demanding, and frankly an ass about it.
>
>If he simply explained a few things, or let _me_ explain a few things, then
>things may have been different.
>
>>I might cancell my newly acquired ICC account.
>
>I wouldn't do that. I like watching the big machine compete :)
>
>If you go on servers like FICS and such, there would be no challenge. Even with
>my dated hardware, my accounts are on the "best" lists.
>
>While the games are nice, the competition seen on ICC is simply unequalled.
>
>Peter

Actually, from what I have heard Playchess is a lot harder than ICC.

anthony



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