Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 10:13:35 06/28/99
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On June 28, 1999 at 12:18:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >AMIR accused bruce from giving title away for free. >He did that right after studying just the paper. Is this the same amir who wanted cstal to continue the lost game against virtual-chess in paris, and when we continued the game especially for him, he was not there to watch the end of it ? (maybe he was eating at the banquet in paris too :-)) Wasn't his suspicion that the game could have been an arrangement ? :-))) It seems he has very often these kind of ideas :-) >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. uff ! >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. what about the icca guys ?! :-) just to confirm to some of my prejudices :-)) >The audience itselve shrunk from 100 spectators to like 20 for the final >game, Jan Louwman, Ossi Weiner and Stefans wife included). the tough ones :-)) >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. :-))))) But that shows pretty much WHY some people travel to championships :-)) >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... :-))))) nice ! :-))) >Greetings, >Vincent
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