Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 16:02:10 03/11/00
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On March 11, 2000 at 18:11:58, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On March 11, 2000 at 17:29:46, blass uri wrote: > >>GM Ram sofer won Fritz6 in the Israeli first league and I heard no excuses. >>GM yudasin won Junior5 1.5:.5 one year ago and I heard no excuses. >> >>Uri > >There's a difference between league play and match play. And I don't think that >programmers are the worst, but there's a community that sometimes lack the sense >of perspective. But my main point is that there's no glory in defeating a >computer for a GM. Well, for any chessplayer. Because there will always be the >point: it's only a machine.... > >Best wishes... >Mogens I just think someone should tell Xie Jun that she should not play under these conditions. If she loses in a match where she had enough time to prepare and rest-days between games, at least the match, Xie Jun, Junior and KC would have been taken seriously. About Junior being just a machine, people took Deep Blue seriously enough in and certainly after the match against Kasparov. Just see how much publicity that match generated. And if she wins or loses, I don't think she would have to lose, but it depends if she had time to prepare, what would it matter what the world thought? Knowing that you have played your best is more important. So, big money or not I don't think she should play now if she can afford to wait for better conditions. Just my opinion Regards, Eelco
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