Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:01:40 02/18/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 19:15:23, Albert Silver wrote:
>On February 17, 2000 at 18:33:20, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>The morbid fear of playing on against Deep Junior and the "true" result against
>>super GM players shows that (I think) at G/60, a computer does play like a GM.
>>Maybe even a super GM.
>
>On a quad Xeon 500 and at g/60, I have no doubt that it plays like a GM, so you
>won't see me disagreeing with you there.
>
>>
>>I think that Amir and Shay should be justifiably proud of their effort. Any
>>machine+program that can strike fear into the heart of a super-GM is an
>>astonishing thing.
>>
>>I think that Adams is not to blame for any controversy. If I were a player, I
>>would always push for any edge I could get, even with the arbitration committee.
>>
>
>There I can't agree with you. I think you have to remember what it is all about:
>playing chess. If there were a loophole in the organizational rules, I don't
>think that that means one should strive to exploit it to the utmost. Could a
>point scored under such circumstances ever be displayed without shame?
>
>Friend: "So, how did your game go against GM whatshisname?"
>Me: "I won."
>Friend: "Really? That's fantastic! What opening did you play?"
>Me: "Opening? We never got that far. My opponent had come back from outside
>after smoking a cigarette, and I could still smell it, so I protested that
>smoking wasn't allowed and that there were still traces of it from his breath
>poisoning the air around me. He was disqualified."
>Friend: "Beautiful. Must have been very exciting."
>
>This actually reminds me of a hilarious strategy described by the great Goscinny
>and Uderzo in "Asterix and the Britons" in which Caesar after having a hard time
>invading the British Isles, discovers that the Brits won't fight during teatime
>and weekends, so he victoriously schedules all of his invasions exclusively
>during teatime and weekends.
Wow! You've been in France for too long, Albert! You've been deeply intoxicated
by our culture! ;)
And if you know who Gaston Lagaffe is, I believe your case is hopeless.
Christophe :)
>The organization may have lacked competence, but if Amir's presentation of the
>facts is correct, then Adams also lacked sportsmanship.
>
> Albert Silver
>
>>Any shame (and there is clearly some to go around) goes to the arbitration
>>party.
>>{purely}IMO-YMMV.
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