Author: Charles Pittaluga
Date: 10:50:27 02/21/00
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On February 21, 2000 at 09:13:30, pavesyles wrote: >On February 21, 2000 at 06:07:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On February 21, 2000 at 03:13:40, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>>On February 20, 2000 at 22:20:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>On February 20, 2000 at 19:57:30, C McClain Morris wrote: >>>> >>>>>I don't think anyone can argue with the fact that it was preposterous for Deep J >>>>>to be forfeited against Adams. If during the course of a basketball game, the >>>>>lights go out (a crash of another kind), I have never seen the game forfeited >>>>>due to a problem that was out of the control of either participant. What's >>>>>really going on here? Anyone have any ideas? >>>>>C Morris >>>> >>>>Nah, just the normal tournament practice which gets overruled if junior >>>>would've been a GM. >>>> >>>>If you're too late for a contest, no matter whether the lights from your >>>>car went off, or whether you ran out of petrol, or whether someone >>>>crashed into you, you're forfeited. >>>> >>>>For some GM's they make exceptions though. That's the unfair part. >>>>Not the forfeit of junior is unfair, but the fact that they had no problems >>>>delaying kasparov-piket for a day.... >>>> >>>>Very fair was however that piket won in a computerish way from kasparov, >>>>just grabbing a pawn then defending the rest of the second game that pawn >>>>till the endgame and win the game somewhere there. great show from piket. >>>> >>>>let's vote for renaming flyingpiket (handle of Jeroen Piket at icc) to >>>>crushingpiket. >>>> >>>>Vincent >>> >>>It was not comfortable to try Adams patients any longer. Adams is a very highly >>>respected international personality, whereas the computer program and its young >>>programer in the background seemed much easier to dispense with. >>> It was high stress for the organisers who were overwhelmed by Adams Aura. >>>S.Taylor >> >>Nah Amir isn't exactly the youngest person on earth, i had the impression >>he's 1.5 times my age at least? I'm 26 now. >> >>If it wasn't adams out there but any other GM, fill in that name. >> >>I'm amazed that in the last game Piket when winning from the big master >>didn't suddenly drop his connection and unexpectedly forfeited.... >> >>Vincent >IF they are not going to run these tournaments correctly then who is going to >care about the results> Hmm the person that takes home the $20,000.00 for one? ;)
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