Author: Roger
Date: 23:27:29 03/22/00
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Tom, I completely disagree. As I said, no chess game takes place in a vacuum. You have to consider the TOTAL SITUATION. If you start pulling out little pieces of the situation, you can argue almost anything you want. So you are saying that if the games had started on time, and that if the connection was perfect, Xie would have found some other reason to bitch and cause trouble? I doubt it, otherwise she would never have agreed to the games to begin with. Why would she want to do this, WITH THE WHOLE WORLD WATCHING. She had the most to lose!! If Junior lost, well...humans are still superior, which we all kind of suspected. No surprise. I think it's probably more a matter of being totally pissed off at the attitudes of those involved. I know Kasparov is someone likely to slant the truth (as his performance in the Deep Blue match shows), and I know that at least one programmer of Junior (Amir) is highly temperamental (his conduct in the recent tournament held on ICC showed me that, I was running Averno). Therefore, in the absence of complete knowledge of what happened, I believe Xie. Roger On March 23, 2000 at 00:19:39, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On March 22, 2000 at 23:37:16, Roger wrote: > >>I don't think it was JUST a refusal to play by phone, I think it was a refusal >>to let things become more chaotic than they already were. > >As I understand it, people have been playing over the phone for decades. Perhaps >the phone system between these countries is not the best, but I assume you do >not get disconnected every 5 minutes. > >So she willingly put up with these frequent disconnections when a known-good >alternative was available to her. > >Not cool. > >-Tom
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