Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:33:16 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 07:49:02, Tina Long wrote: >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 I don't buy that argument. She may have felt 'abused' or whatever. She may have felt (apparently justifiably I might add) that KK was totally incompetent and that they could not repair the situation enough to make it viable. But to say she couldn't be 100% sure that the computer was on the other end is total nonsense. How could she _possibly_ be sure she was playing DJ? Answer: She couldn't. The only way to be 100% sure is to play _in person_. So while she had plenty to grumble about, this isn't legitimate.
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