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Subject: Re: Crocodiles tears

Author: blass uri

Date: 07:17:02 02/17/00

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On February 17, 2000 at 10:14:01, Jürgen Hartmann wrote:

>
>>Which is just the wrong way to figure things out. Kasparov was not even involved
>>in the decision. Take a look at
>>http://www.kasparovchess.com/serve/templates/dispchessdoc.asp?p_docID=2499&p_docLang=EN
>>
>
>I don't believe a word of those crocodiles tears. The technical unprobability
>stares you right in the face. I mean anybody of us could have logged into their
>site with Junior on a notebook within seconds and played the game against Adams!
>I played a couple of guest games online there. Provider down? You dial another
>provider. Power failure? You call a friend on your mobile phone to log in and
>play the game on his computer. This is a multimillion dollar multinational web
>company and they are not able to connect to the internet?
>
>This was a very convenient technical problem which happened exactly in the
>second when Junior got a winning position. Suddenly everybody in the company saw
>that Junior would play against Kasparov and kill him. So "they were not able to
>connect to the internet" anymore.

I think that you underestimate kasparov.
kasparov is better than every computer at g/60

Uri



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