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| Sam Sloan 2004-10-31, 6:46 am |
| At 02:03 PM 10/26/2004 +0200, Kaarlo Schepel wrote:
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>Eż Dear friends of (a democratic) FIDE, In our open letter to the
>delegates at the General Assembly, there was one inaccuracy. The request
>for 20 rooms concerned the failed Kasparov-Ponomariov bid. The text
>should therefore read under (5) as follows: (b) Is it true that the
>FIDE-office requested 20 luxury hotel rooms to attend the failed title
>fight Kasparov-Ponomariov? It should be clear that adding such a burden
>to a potential sponsor does not make many friends.
I tried to organize an Interzonal in the US Virgin Islands in 1987.
The organizer is traditionally given two spaces in the Interzonal and
he can invite anybody he wants. I submitted an official bid to FIDE
and notified Dr. Lim Kok Ann that I wanted to give those to slots to
Anand and Susan Polgar.
Anand was not famous yet but I realized that he was going to be soon.
Susan Polgar had qualified for the Zonal but had not been allowed to
play because she is a woman.
Dr. Lim told me that I would have to provide a FIRST CLASS AIRPLANE
TICKET to the US Virgin Islands for the PRESIDENT of every chess
federation that was sending a player to the Interzonal. Note: To the
President, not to the player.
Perhaps for this reason, the Interzonal was never held.
Sam Sloan
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| Kevin L. Bachler 2004-10-31, 6:46 am |
| In article <417e6941.127886343@ca.news.verio.net>, Sam Sloan says...
quote:
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>At 02:03 PM 10/26/2004 +0200, Kaarlo Schepel wrote:
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>I tried to organize an Interzonal in the US Virgin Islands in 1987.
>The organizer is traditionally given two spaces in the Interzonal and
>he can invite anybody he wants. I submitted an official bid to FIDE
>and notified Dr. Lim Kok Ann that I wanted to give those to slots to
>Anand and Susan Polgar.
>
>Anand was not famous yet but I realized that he was going to be soon.
>Susan Polgar had qualified for the Zonal but had not been allowed to
>play because she is a woman.
>
>Dr. Lim told me that I would have to provide a FIRST CLASS AIRPLANE
>TICKET to the US Virgin Islands for the PRESIDENT of every chess
>federation that was sending a player to the Interzonal. Note: To the
>President, not to the player.
>
>Perhaps for this reason, the Interzonal was never held.
>
>Sam Sloan
What does this have to do with Grant Perks?
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Kevin L. Bachler
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| Kenneth Sloan 2004-10-31, 6:46 am |
| timothyhanke@comcast.net (Tim Hanke) writes:
<a newgroup article which will do absolutely nothing to earn him more respect>
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Kenneth Sloan sloan@uab.edu
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/
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| Taylor Kingston 2004-11-04, 9:46 am |
| timothyhanke@comcast.net (Tim Hanke) wrote in message news:<b2a11a50.0410270708.3abecbae@posting.google.com>...
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> Then there is the important matter of my chess trivia game ...
> A lot of people think my chess trivia game is merely a joke on this
> newsgroup and doesn't exist. >
Tim, you might try contacting Hanon Russell to see if he wants to
use any of your questions for the annual ChessCafe Quiz. I've been
writing most of the questions since 1999 but my trivia tank is getting
low. Maybe Hanon can use some of yours. I realize this is not an angle
with any financial profit, but at least your work would come to some
use.
Taylor Kingston
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