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Subject: Re: Thorsten,chessbase did congratulate the winner.

Author: Stefan Meyer-Kahlen

Date: 07:55:18 06/28/99

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On June 28, 1999 at 10:29:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On June 28, 1999 at 09:55:51, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On June 28, 1999 at 09:12:23, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>On June 28, 1999 at 08:31:23, blass uri wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is from chessbase site in the news:
>>>>
>>>>Our heartfelt
>>>>                               congratulations to Stefan
>>>>                               Meyer-Kahlen, who is one of the
>>>>                               most talented young programmers
>>>>                               around.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>I have heard there is a fax on alpha centauri, in the basement, near
>>>the toilette. :-))
>>>Normally , in sports, you do congratulate the winner at the event,
>>>most often directly after he has won the game.
>>>
>>>Anyway -
>>
>>Not many people were there at that point, there was a banquet, and almost
>>everyone went to that.
>>bruce
>
>Right i found this very unsportive from a lot of people.
>
>One plays a major world championship, and then most miss the finals?
>
>It really happened, they all went to supper.
>Only a small group remained in the tournament hall that evening
>to see the tie between Ferret and Shredder.
>
>Then after a long and tough struggle when we got
>in the restaurant i got to sit at a table and was so stupid
>to sit near to Amir Ban's team. Amir after looking the
>a4-paper (without stopping to eat)
>where the Shredder-Ferret game was printed at,
>then after a few words in Hebrew with his other teammembers,
>
>accused Bruce having made a deal giving away the title to Stefan,
>although if he and his team didn't go for supper then they would have
>seen that it was everything except that.
>
>I wonder whether Amir wishes to repeat that accusation
>in this forum, because i didn't only found it very rude
>and obviously wrong, i also found it very insulting and
>showing from very bad manners.
>
>Secondly Amir Ban is always the one who tells me: "winner is always right",
>but seemingly his own rule only gets followed by him
>if he is the winner.
>
>Greetings,
>Vincent

Are there really serious rumors that I bought the title from Bruce?
Please let me know.

Stefan



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