Talk:Professional Chess Association

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I've removed this:

In the same year [1995] Kasparov and FIDE ended their feud.

I'm not sure in what sense it is true. I know there were talks around this time about a PCA-FIDE reunification match between Kaspy and Karpov, but they never came to anything, and I don't think Kasparov really made his peace with FIDE (in a sense, the arguments over the Kasimdzhanov match mean he still hasn't). --Camembert

Brain Games

The story regarding Brain Games (briefly mentioned in this article) seems to be rather complicated and contentious, based on and in which David Levy and Raymond Keene have it at each other. Roughly, the dispute seems to be about whether Brain Games (and various other companies) was for real, or was an effort to raise a bunch of money by making unrealistic or untrue claims about what business ventures they would enter. Oh, and disputes between people who had been business partners but fell out. Some of this seems like it could be sourced to (1) Private Eye (number 1093, November 14th-27th 2003), (2) the (Form 8-K) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington on June 5th 2003 (I think by RTG Ventures), (3) Private Eye number 1,044, and probably other media sources, but much of what these pages link to is (a) self-published on various chess websites, and (b) press releases (also a form of self-publication). I don't know if a lot of reliable sources have taken it on. There's a mention at our Raymond Keene article but that too is short on facts. Other companies which were related one way or another to this whole area were Einstein Group plc (which on 24 January 2002 purchased assets from Intellectual Leisure Ltd which had been with Brain Games), RTG Ventures Inc, MJWC (a British Virgin Islands corporation), Mind Sports Olympiad...oh my they just keep coming. Egads. This is not turning out to be the simple fact-check I had in mind when I started browsing. Kingdon 15:29, 2 October 2007 (UTC)