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How to make money from chess
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 3:53 pm
by Gerard Killoran
Re: How to make money from chess
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 4:24 pm
by Christopher Kreuzer
http://websterjournal.com/2014/04/23/co ... hess-team/
"$1 million program proposal made by Susan Polgar to Texas Tech, documents reveal"
Re: How to make money from chess
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 8:43 pm
by JustinHorton
I did like "The Journal reached out to Webster's public relations office". Is that just an Americanism or a very dry satire on public relations-speak?
Proper piece of journalism, that piece, though.
Re: How to make money from chess
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 8:55 pm
by JustinHorton
"When asked how Webster’s budget compared with the proposal of the competing institution referenced in the TTU memos, Giblin said the figures did not match up. Giblin was unable, however, to elaborate on the dissimilarity. Giblin theorized the assertion of a competing institution may have been a negotiating tactic used by Polgar or Truong."
Re: How to make money from chess
Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 11:21 pm
by David Robertson
Plenty more here in the
Washington Post. I wonder if anyone attaches any kind of KPIs to these numbers.