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Subject: Re: Crocodiles tears

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:30:19 02/18/00

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On February 17, 2000 at 10:21:11, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>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.


How do you reconcile this with his refusal to play Fritz?  And his
comment "I remember my loss to Genius..."???





>
>Enrique
>
>>Uri



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