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Subject: Re: to our conspiracy theorists

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 10:38:11 10/20/02

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On October 20, 2002 at 11:03:07, Bob Durrett wrote:

>Doubtless, all chessplayers would have been very happy if Kramnik had played
>fantastic brilliancies in every game!
>
>Unfortunately, the inescapable conclusion would have been that "chess computers
>are just not up there yet."  A rematch would then have been seen as pointless,
>at least until the computers had become better.  Why rematch if the outcome is
>already known in advance?
>
>Similarly, if Fritz had smashed Kramnik.  People would say that a rematch would
>be pointless because it was clear that the computer would win again.
>
>Bob D.

So from the outcome of the match we can conclude that an equilibrium point was
reached more or less...

w.b.r.
Otello



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