Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:34:15 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 08:35:30, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On February 16, 2000 at 23:58:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 16, 2000 at 23:09:19, Charles Milton Ling wrote: >> >>>You have some good points. >>>But when I was referring to fatigue, I just wanted to point out that Adams was >>>prepared to play 2 2-hour games. Not one game that took about 6 and another >>>that might have taken God-knows-how-long. >>>I doubt you will seem many GM entries in tournaments if the conditions state >>>that the human might have to play - or wait - for 12 hours a day. >>>Charley >> >> >>Remember that according to reports, the first 1.5 hour delay was on Adam's >>end, not Junior's. That means he was _obligated_ to not raise hell. Or >>else _he_ should have been forfeited as he clearly overstepped the one hour >>time control had the clocks started at the announced time without him >>connected. > >That's interesting. Because the commentary that GM Greenfeld was giving >indicated that they were ready in Bermuda and were waiting for DJ. Read Amir's comments. First Adams couldn't connect because his computer was broken. He went to someone elses and found a bad mouse. Then he wanted some sort of move verification stuff to avoid mouse slips. It _sounds_ like the first 1 hour and 40 minutes were spent waiting on him.
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