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Subject: Re: The game Adams - Deep Junior

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 15:12:30 02/16/00

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On February 16, 2000 at 18:07:45, blass uri wrote:

>On February 16, 2000 at 17:49:59, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2000 at 17:25:09, Amir Ban wrote:
>>
>>>On February 16, 2000 at 16:43:12, Amir Ban wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 16, 2000 at 16:06:03, Amir Ban wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>This game is not over. There are major communication problems at the
>>>>>KasparovChess offices. The game has been stopped, and there are discussions
>>>>>going on on what to do next.
>>>>>
>>>>>Needless to say, this is not making me happy. Apologies to all viewers.
>>>>>
>>>>>Amir
>>>>
>>>>It has been agreed with GM Adams to call game one a DRAW.
>>>>
>>>>The second game will start in about 20 minutes. Communication looks good at this
>>>>moment. Let's hope we can play the second game to finish :(
>>>>
>>>>Amir
>>>
>>>GM Adams has now changed his mind and wants the entire 2-game match to be
>>>declared his win by forfeit.
>>
>>Who is accepting so much crap from Adams? He lost game 1 and that's all there is
>>to it.
>>
>>Enrique
>
>If the time trouble in game 1 was because of a communication problem then I
>agree that adams lost game 1 but if the time trouble of Junior was because of a
>bug in Junior when it used a lot of time for move 29 then the fair result of
>game one is not clear.
>
>I understood from another post that the fact that Junior had less than 2 minutes
>to finish the game was because of a bug in Junior.

Bugs hurt programs, they are not an unfair advantage by any means, and bug or no
bug Junior won the game. If Junior had lost because of a bug, I can't imagine
that Adams would gentlemanly concede to replay it.

Enrique

>Uri



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