Author: vitor
Date: 07:20:34 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 08:16:32, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 18, 2000 at 04:15:47, Mig wrote: > >>On February 18, 2000 at 01:18:27, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>One thing for sure: in the GM-challenge I NEVER would allow a GM to lose >>>on time because of Internet problems. You just start to look for solutions >>>the game can be continued. Maybe the next day, if not possible the day after >>>and so on. Internet problems are nobody's fault and therefore nobody should >>>be a victim of that. >>> >>>IMO game-1 should be continued by all means and the second game should be >>>played thereafter. Anything else is highly unfair. The same applies in case >>>things would have happened the opposite. >>> >>>A VERY bad decission Mig! >> >>I wish we'd had you on the line last night! I'm sure Piket, Svidler, Kasparov, >>Adams, their arbiters, and the sponsor, arbiter, and opponent in Adams' Bermuda >>match would have been delighted to see a postponement till the next day, >>changing the days of the other games. > >Then answer this: Had Kasparov been unable to connect against Adams, what >would have happened? OK. Suppose it wasn't Kasparov. Suppose it was some >lesser GM against Adams. And _he_ couldn't connect because his ISP had been >attacked by one of these denial-of-service attacks? And after you answer both >of those, why is your answer different for Deep Junior, which is _obviously_ >will be. I think _that_ is the thing most of us simply "don't get"... > Inconveniencing a GM or unfairly forfeiting a computer? That is the question. If you're smart, the choice should be easy. Here's the reality. You can get a program to play anyone, anytime, anyplace, for free. You can't say that about the GM, 2700 elo no less. >The internet is not 100% reliable. If you don't have a plan for failures, >you don't have a viable plan at all. Even long-distance telephones are not >100%. Ask Monty Newborn/Ken Thompson/etc about the ACM computer chess events >and the rules in place to handle potential phone outages (which do happen, >sometimes for extended periods of time.) > > > >> Sorry, that's just not the way things are >>done, even if it had been possible, which it wasn't. (Seirawan is leaving >>Bermuda and their match arbiter leaves to another job even earlier.) >> >>I'm glad some people are actually reading my posts, I wish everyone were. IT WAS >>A KNOCKOUT EVENT. Someone has to advance, the other games are the next day. >>Unless you think we should have held the semi-final after the final, perhaps? No >>further play dates were available to Adams because of the schedule of another >>event in Bermuda. If it had happened to just about any other participant of >>course we would have rescheduled, that was our first suggestion. We discussed a >>dozen options. None were satisfactory. And the later it got, the less >>satisfactory the options got. >> >>Saludos, Mig >> >>mig@kasparovchess.com
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