Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:18:11 06/28/99
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On June 28, 1999 at 10:55:18, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: >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. AMIR accused bruce from giving title away for free. He did that right after studying just the paper. I'm not kidding here. I was however red of anger Amir saying this, and there was no room for misunderstanding his words. It was definitely not meant as a joke from Amir. I am still so red of anger about Amir accusing Bruce making a deal, that i still so many days after the WCCC decided to post it here. I have not many good words for the many people going to eat, while the finals were being played. I found it weird (and also told him that) that Ulf came asking me whether i wanted to go to the restaurant (note that Ulf himselve also remained in the tournament hall, together with Rainer Feldmann, Heiner Matthias. Apart from the tournament direction and volunteers transferring moves to the computers, i can't recall many people that remained in the tournament hall. The audience itselve shrunk from 100 spectators to like 20 for the final game, Jan Louwman, Ossi Weiner and Stefans wife included). At the internet however the number of spectators grew and grew, up to about 260 near the end. Perhaps next tournament we should organize over the internet, cuz it seems food is more important for the participants than who gets champion. However i don't doubt they all read what gets written in this msg, cuz i'm here talking about what i heart at the cafe-table from the mouth of Amir, who was gone as first together with all O-O-O members. And i'm not gonna explain O-O-O, because that's for insiders... >Stefan Greetings, Vincent
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