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Subject: Re: Anand in last place!!!!!, Computers improving on K-K seconds.

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 07:55:06 03/08/00

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On March 07, 2000 at 22:33:30, Tina Long wrote:

>On March 07, 2000 at 03:26:00, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>
>Grin,  can you imagine Karpov's Hotel room of overnight analysis if 1985 had
>been 2000.  Grandmasters staring at screens muttering "no, no, no",  Tigger says
>this Rebel says that.  Karpov warming his hands in the haze of heat emitting
>from 1000mhz machines, he doesn't dare touch anything, it may go beep - and
>Victor's crew has bought up all the blueberry....  There should be half the
>Russian "fleet" connected by the internet but Mig has scrambled their lines &
>ported them straight to Kasparov's room.


Well, if you are talking about the first 1985 match, then I can imagine it.
However, the tournament would have been a whole lot shorter. But the excuse
would have been a crash and not exhaustion.


>
>You & I, we sit here & watch it all, waiting for Irena to tell us what we should
>think.  Wait a second, Lambchop has solved it!!!
>
>Hmmm
>
>Tina Long
>
>PS:  Yes it is wonderful to see & hear our heroes.  My Aussie connection has
>troubles with such large files though so I haven't registered with ClubK.
>
>& Now completely off topic:


You mean the stuff above was not off topic? :)


>How come on Big (I forget the word) Tuesday, when half of the USA votes for
>their electoral nomination, the Dow Jones has it's 4th biggest ever plunge!


Easy. It's so that the politicians can say, "Hey, when I got the party
nomination, look how low the Dow Jones was. And look at it now once I got
elected.".


>
>Double Hmmm


KarinsDad :)



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