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Subject: Re: Crocodiles tears

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 07:21:11 02/17/00

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On February 17, 2000 at 10:17:02, blass uri wrote:

>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

... and he is not afraid of anything or anyone capable of playing chess. Saying
the contrary is not understanding Kasparov.

Enrique

>Uri



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