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Author Re: Braunlich's article, "Scholstics and the Soul of Chess" Not to Tim H.
Kevin L. Bachler

2005-01-18, 12:45 am

In article <1106006004.939009.220100@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Vince Hart
says...
quote:

>
>
>As I understand it, the reason we have the tournament we have today is
>because no one was showing up for the official championship and someone
>decided to focus on making a tournament attractive to scholastics.
>That tournament did so well that the ICA decided to recognize it rather
>than run its own tournament.


Then you understand it completely wrong.
quote:

>Once upon a time, the NIT was a much more prestigious collegiate
>basketball tournament than the NCAA Championship. Official is nice,
>but it is not everything.
>
>Vince Hart
>



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