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Author Re: Parr's definition of "International Swiss" tournament
Mike Murray

2005-09-07, 8:32 pm

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 17:42:34 -0400, "Catalan" <xxx@nowhere.com> wrote:

quote:

>One of the first things you learn in a B-school course on doing business
>worldwide is that there are no international businesses. Companies that do
>business in more than one country are multinational companies engaged in
>international business. For a Swiss to be international it would have to
>have rounds in more than one country. Now if CCA were to hold Swisses in
>several counties it would be a multinational organizer and players that play
>in many countries might be multinational chess players engaged in
>international chess.

quote:

>For it to be an international Swiss it would need to be played in several
>countries by this B-school definition. I would postulate that Larry's shared
>1st-3rd in a local tournament that had multinational chess players
>participating.


B-schools or FIDE? Hmmmm. Frying Pan or fire?

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