Author: Derek Paquette
Date: 10:46:41 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 13:42:23, Fernando Villegas wrote: >It is curious to see a strong professional player being mated as the chinese >girl was by Fritz. Is it that she never was told how to play a computer? Even >without making use of that specific - and somewhat despicable- tailored >strategies to hold back the monsters, she was too much carefree and let happens >a position that perhaps not even Kasparov could handle -against a silicon >player- without sheding blood. >At the same time, that free, detached spirit say a lot in favor of her. >I am bored to see one GM after the other playing safe and with a mean mentality. >Three hurras for the lovely player! >Fernando Zhu Chen looked better losing, than petrovich did drawing, She went in and wanted to win, she wasn't scared or cowardly, she played with 'balls' Asia has a strange culture and I think if she would have played like that it would have made her look very very bad, much like when the japanese citizens were captured in Iraq and then returned, instead of 'oh my god, thank goodness you aren't hurt' it was a 'you have no honor' return, i'm very glad that she did that, and showed a lot of character.
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