Author: Amir Ban
Date: 17:11:01 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 19:04:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >In the inside chess site of Yassar Sierwan, he says that Adams had to wait two >hours to start the match. I thought it was the other way around -- that DJ was >told Adams did not want to start for two hours. Which is it? >This account of the events, by someone who was an eyewitness, sounds very >different than the information which I have heard. > >http://www.insidechess.com/events/Bermuda2000G7.html There is no contradiction. Two days before the game we agreed to postpone from 1000 EST to 1200 EST by Adams request. The game did not start on time because of problems on the Bermuda side, and Seirawan's account resembles Mig's account. Seirawan treats these delays due to Adams hardware and KC organization as something that was caused by the opponent. The account is not accurate about what happened after the game was declared drawn. Mig did tell Adams that if the game didn't start in 15 minutes he can claim a forfeit, but nobody in Israel knew of this surprising promise. So when this deadline passed around 5:15 Adams claimed the forfeit based on Mig's promise. I reported this here on 5:25, and it agrees with what I wrote that 30 minutes passed from the conclusion of a draw to the demand for forfeit. The part about the computer "coming back to life" at 5:40 is not true. After the claim for forfeit came up, we did not try to start a game and nothing happened after 5:15 except talk. I notice that Seirawan does not show the game or comment on it, and on the KC site there is no comment by Adams on the game unlike all other rounds. What is consistent is that everyone in Bermuda thought Adams was going through an ordeal, and this goes to explain why Mig made this commitment, and why KC management insisted on giving him the forfeit. Adams still talks on this in his comments to his Kasparov match, and perhaps feels he's not been compensated enough. Amir
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