Author: Albert Silver
Date: 21:14:35 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 23:01:40, Christophe Theron wrote:
>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.
And Spirou and Fantasio, and I wouldn't dream of being separated from my
collection of Madame LaCrue! :-)
L'Amerloque
>
>
> 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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