Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 04:47:06 02/19/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 20:11:01, Amir Ban wrote: >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. Dear Amir, For how long did you have connection problems before starting the second game? When playing Morozevich, Milos was disconnected for 25 minutes and he wasn't forfeited. This whole story about the forfeit of Junior has made the press indignant. The biggest and most prestigious newspaper in Spain, "El País", has been publishing that this Grand Prix will pass to history because of the unfair elimination of Deep Junior. See http://www.elpais.es/p/d/20000219/deportes/jaque.htm and http://www.elpais.es/p/d/20000218/deportes/jaque.htm. The chess magazine "Jaque" shares this opinion and is equally outraged. It may not solve much, but support you have plenty. Enrique > 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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