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Subject: Re: Anyone else miss IBM mentality

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 06:18:28 02/08/03

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On February 08, 2003 at 01:29:21, Derek Paquette wrote:

>To put it short, the DJ team are cowards.  I now more than ever miss the IBM
>teams mentality,  the win by any cost attitude.
>They were aggressive,  in their motives, and would never have accepted this
>rediculous draw, ,ESPECIALLY in the final game, they'd want to see "IBM defeats
>world champion"  not a friggin draw
>
>Bring them back, Garry will have no choice but to play for a win this time
>around, and he'll have too, a new improved Deep Blue would be a killer.
>-Derek

You cannot blame the DJ team for cowardice. For example, when Kasparov offered a
draw after Rxc3 they bravely rejected it (I wouldn't). It was Kasparov who after
losing the third match somewhat lost his self confidence and decided not to take
risks for achieving victory. In all the four drawn matches the position was
eaither a dead draw, or slightly better for Kasparov...



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