Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:20:29 01/03/02
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On January 02, 2002 at 20:41:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On January 02, 2002 at 20:29:11, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>Last, I have no time. Loek van Wely is on the menu and Gandalf 5 is going to >>play 4 correspondence games against 4 x IM's. I need all my time for those 2 new >>events. > >Fear or no fear, the net result is that Rebel and Tiger are about >the only strong professionals that are missing from the field from >what is becoming a more and more important tournament. It seems >that your competitors do not have the same reservations as you >do. In Eds case it clearly is not fear for the unknown. Rebel used to show up in nearly no event, commercially suicidal of course. I was really happily amazed it showed up at dutch open, thanks to Jan Louwman. Commercially the match versus Van Wely is like a million times more important of course, but no way to prepare for Van Wely for Ed. Only Jeroen could possibly mean something there, which means that Jeroen declined to play CCT4 with either tiger or Rebel. Also the match against Van Wely, do we again not get live internet coverage because some long grey haired 1200 rated guy wants to add 'good analysis' with fritz5.32 at a laptop first to the moves (instead of adding any analysis later)? I remember him commenting things like "bad move from Rebel" (rebel at a 1.xGhz machine running at 3 minutes a move and the laptop at 2 seconds a move with fritz5.32). I drove for 5 hours in total to watch that spectacle against John v/d Wiel, to find out that i was 'lucky' this day that i was allowed to enter the building as there was no meeting from the local township (in which case the game was played at 5th floor where no spectators are allowed). The organization was a joke to say it with one word. How they could declare the match to be a 'clear succes' from commercial viewpoint (no audience was watching except me and Ernst Walet. later that afternoon 1 or 2 spectators joined for a few minutes then went away, leaving just me and Ernst Walet behind as only spectators) is a big mystery to me, but for the sake of chess and computerchess i will laugh not too loud. Hopefully they learned from this, but i doubt it considering their mentality. What i don't understand is why it's just 4 games this time. Of course that's better than 2 or 3 games (or 0 games) but it's real little. Van Wely asked more for 6 games than the budget allowed, but was happy to play 4 games for that money? >As Dann said, no time is a bad excuse. I'm sure there are a lot >of people on this board that would like to operate Century 4 >or Chess Tiger. >If you don't play, you'll never win. >-- >GCP
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