Author: blass uri
Date: 10:48:58 03/11/00
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On March 11, 2000 at 13:32:20, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: >On March 11, 2000 at 13:18:55, Peter Kasinski wrote: > >>On March 11, 2000 at 11:26:32, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On March 11, 2000 at 10:46:13, Roy Brunjes wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>I was quite sure there was supposed to be a game today with Xie Jun playing >>>>white. 13:30 GMT is long passed. Anyone know the story? >>>> >>>>Roy >>>That is the same question that 100 of thousands of people are asking right now >>>at the chat room at Kasparovchess.com. What is so annoying is that KC website >>>does not have a responsible person in the chat room, to keep us inform with any >>>problem that could occur during this interesting match. >> >>Which is almost as annoying as the fact that this site keeps crashing otherwise >>healthy systems regardless of OS/browser combination, at least once a day. >>The interface-Java thingy they have is a fine example of trash. IMHO. > > >Well ... I like Gary Kasparov ... but as the DJ-Adams chaos proved: This site >seems to be ruled by incompetence. > >I don't think that girl would stand a chance against DJ anyway. > >Just my $0.02, >Andreas I think that the sponsors should pay her only for winning or drawing in games and not for playing(x$ for every win and 0.5x$ for every draw when x is big enough to convince xie to play). It seems that this is the only way to convince humans to play seriously against the computers and not to play in another tournament at the same time. I think that xie has better chances if the sponsors use this idea. One sponsor use this idea with x=500 but x=500 is probably not big enough to convince xie to play. Uri
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