Author: Tina Long
Date: 04:49:02 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 07:37:50, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 03:26:05, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>I just think she should have continued the match via telephone. I basically >>don't understand her reason not to. I mean, yes, using the telephone is sort of >>a breach of contract, it is something that was not agreed upon, it is changing a >>situation that is already messed up. >> >>However, how could using the phone possibly mess up the situation any more than >>it already was? And it's not like using a phone is rocket science. It would not >>have made anything more complicated. On the contrary, it would have simplified >>everything and made it work. But oh well. > >Who was the independent observer at the other end? If there wasn't any then I >can't see why she should agree to play over the phone. > >Best wishes... >Mogens That was a point that Xie Jun made. It seems she believed, possibly erroneously, that while on the internet she was connected directly to Deep Junior (isn't that how internet chess like Yahoo & ICC & FIC's work?). On the Telephone there was a human at the other end betwen her and DJ, and she could not be 100% sure that the moves and times she received were DJ's. Anyway, it's finished. What's next? Tina Long
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