Author: James Robertson
Date: 16:01:58 03/08/00
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On March 08, 2000 at 15:05:59, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >On March 08, 2000 at 14:56:48, Howard Exner wrote: > >>Jun Xie is also presently involved in another tournament in Shangai called the >>Sufe Cup, March 2 - 16. Leaves one to speculate how this will effect her energy >>level for the Junior match. Also re-scheduling of games becomes tight. > > >Dear Mr. Exner, > > That is no excuse. When I worked the emergency room and urgent care centers I >would routinely see five to six patients at a time. Do you think that Ms Xie >Jun is less capable of moving chess pieces on a board? Appendicitis in room 1, >myocardial infarction in room 3, foreign body ingestion in room 6, laceration in >room 5 etc. etc. That is called being harried. A closer analogy is taking a 6 hour exam. Statistics show that people get tired when taking exams, and they also show that tired people do worse on exams. As a result, a GM playing many hours in a few days will not do as well as a rested GM. James > >Let us not mollycoddle these grandmasters. They are tougher than you think. >I do think that Xie Jun is going to get beaten badly by Deep Junior 6.x if the >match continues. > > >Tim Frohlick
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