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Subject: Hydra "Match-Fixing"?

Author: Madhavan

Date: 19:29:54 06/28/05


http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2476

[quote]

From Nigel Short we received the following email:

Subject: Business proposition

I have a great business proposition for you: I give you $10,000, or $20,000 if
you are really, really good.You take get on a stage in London and allow yourself
to be humiliated by a machine for six days. How does it sound?

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Looks like Hydra teams might send GM's a mail before real matches begin,could
that be a mail from Hydra team to GM Nigel Short,inviting him to play 6 game
series and this quote "allow yourself to be humiliated by a machine" sounds like
Hydra team  proposed a match fixing asking Nigel to lose all games and recieve
some good amount from them?No?


[quote]
"The outspoken British number two did not actually write "be humiliated". His
original choice of words was, however, a little too strong for our international
news pages."

Just kidding after all :)



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