Author: Peter Fendrich
Date: 09:47:43 03/03/99
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On March 03, 1999 at 11:07:24, Charles Unruh wrote: >On March 03, 1999 at 09:59:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On March 03, 1999 at 04:36:43, Lin Harper wrote: >> >>>Kaspy should never have agreed to such a short match. He would surely have >>>caught up and passed the computer if he had time. >> >>I think Kasparov might be one of the best two or three players of all time. >>But in _that_ match with deep blue, I personally believe that if the match >>had gone two more games, it would have been two more won games for DB. Kasparov >>"lost it" somewhere in the first 3-4 games and never recovered. And I don't >>believe he would have recovered unless there had been a month break in the >>match which would not have happened. >> >>The last two games of the match had him looking 'beaten' before he ever made >>the first move. I think it would be very difficult for him to 'come back' >>with additional games, given the way he appeared to feel... > > >This really surprises me from you but anyway, It's quite a difficult thing to >say that kasparov would lose some games because of emotion after he went down, >because he would have been in a different frame of mind if he thought he had >more than a mere 6 games. Further when a player has the "stuff" that it takes >to be a world champion they have what is commonly known as the "Rocky Balboa >Music!", after that 6th round loss when kasp would have walked in everone in the >room would have been hearing that "duh duhnn, duh duh duhnn Adrian!!" >> The guy lost, that's evidence enough for me. If he is the better chess player or if he would win the next match is a completely different story that we will never know, I'm afraid... //Peter
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