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Masked Bishop Goes Zero for Ten!
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| Chessdon 2004-10-21, 5:46 pm |
| Masked Biship goes zero for 10 on his arguments for moving to Paris>
MB: There are obvious advantages to building the new USCF headquarters in
Paris. . .
Some good reasons to go:
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>1) Sam Sloan is thousands of miles away, and won't be able to make all the
>board meetings.
Wrong - Sam consistently shows up at important meetings wherever they are.
Didn'tyou see the Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman. Well Sam is our Dustin Hoffman.
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>2) Ditto Don Schultz.
Wrong - My wife loves Paris. We lived there five years. We would be there.
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>3) The French suck at chess, so our players will actually look good for a
>change.
Wrong - The French are very good at chess. Spassky lives outside Paris and is a
solid first board for them. Than there is GM Joel Lautier and many ohers. The
talent in Crossville, Liberty and even Lindborg pales compared to that in
Paris.
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>4) Beatriz Marinello will get her free health care, so she can stop making a
>shameless run on the ED position.
Wrong - Beatriz would not be eligible for free health care as she is a
volunteer thus not eligible for most French Medical benefits.
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>5) We can laugh about Yasser Seirawan and his ideas about chess
>organizations from a safe distance.
Wrong - Paris is a comfortable 4 hour train ride from Yasser's home in
Amsterdam.
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>6) Bill Goichberg won't be able to work for free anymore, because the
>commute would be a killer.
Wrong - This is the age of the computer and the Internet. Bill would certainly
continue his valuable volunteer contributions.
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>7) Kalev Pehme's distorted command of English can become an even-more
>distorted command of French.
Wrong - Your mistaking an advantage for a disadvantage.
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>8) Instead of watching crummy state organizations like the ICA flame-out, we
>can cheer the success of regional chess bodies like the AEP (Association
>d'Echecs Provence).
Wrong - The AEP is not in Paris but rather Southern France..
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>9) Better lunchtime eats in Paris than in New Windsor by a country mile.
Wrong - The McaDonalds, Burger Kings and Wendy's now dominate Paris.
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>10) Nude beaches galore -- and you won't have to swim at one named for some
>peevish muckraker.
Wrong - Get a map, Paris is not by the beach.
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score: correct answers - zero
WRONG ansers - 10
total: zero for 10
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| Angelo DePalma 2004-10-22, 12:45 am |
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"Chessdon" <chessdon@aol.com> wrote
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> Wrong - Get a map, Paris is not by the beach.
Maybe he's referring to la rive gauche.
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| Chessdon 2004-10-22, 6:45 am |
| >Maybe he's referring to la rive gauche.
that would be a stretch
After reading the MB's response on this 0 to 10 topic, I realized the
foolishness on my part to make an attempt at humor with an anonymouse..
So no more from me on this topic.
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