Author: Steve Coladonato
Date: 07:22:50 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 09:34:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. The ClubKasparov chess site seems to confirm what Amir Ban has stated. It looks like the problems started in Bermuda with the PC and mouse and then to the ISP in Israel in the latter parts of the game. Here is the link to the ClubKasparov explanation. http://www.clubkasparov.com/serve/templates/dispchessdoc.asp?p_docID=2499&p_docLang=EN The document pretty much gets to the heart of the matter in that insufficient preparation/planning was done for major technical difficulties. I personally like this type of tournament and would hate to see it trashed because of what happened in this the inaugural event. I do lean towards the human side as psychologically the human is affected by delays etc. The computer is tireless. DeepJunior played a great game against Adams. But then again, it was 4 hours into a 2 hour game when things went belly up. Steve
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