Author: Chessfun
Date: 19:23:22 03/15/00
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On March 15, 2000 at 22:14:32, Tina Long wrote: >I can't see that this has been posted here yet, although I may have passed >straight past it. > >from: >http://www.kasparovchess.com/serve/Templates/folders/show.asp?p_folderID=278 > >START QUOTE > >At 13:31 GMT, Xie Jun played her first move - e4! > > Like in a horror story, DJ did not respond. The night before, >in the midst of the Kasparov grand simul in NY and just before the live >Becker-Kasparov match planned for the next day, a correction was made to the DJ >robot to patch a problem of not updating Deep Junior with server time when the >second time control would take effect. Apparently, this last-minute change was >fatal, and locked DJ just at the crucial moment. > > (Naturally, the new robot had been tested during the night >and found to be working.) > > After several attempts to recover, we decided to move to >manual feeding. > > (This was also the way Xie Jun was playing--that is, over the >board, with moves fed via Mr. Leong, the official observer.) > > Xie Jun demanded compensation: a 20-minute deduction on DJ's >clock, which was granted to her upon resXie Jun demanded compensation: a >20-minute deduction on DJ's clock, which was granted to her upon resuming. As >the tragedy continued, DJ's manual operator committed a mouse slip and instead >of castling, the book move, he dropped DJ's queen on d8. This out-of-the-blue >event did not stop DJ, and the game continued, with DJ working its way out of >the odd position it was driven into. > > But then came the final blow--a disconnection message from >Xie Jun's playing applet was received just as she played 16. Qe2. Xie Jun did >not realize she had been disconnected from the server. Noticing that DJ's clock >was still running and DJ was not making a move, she rejected the idea that she >was the one disconnected. After an hour of trying to persuade Xie Jun to close >the applet and to reconnect in order to resume the game, there seemed to be no I thought Mr. Leong the official observer (whatever that means) was the one playing the moves. If so it should be him closing the applet....no? Thanks. >point to artificially keeping alive this "jinxed event" and the match was called >off. This unfortunate match calls for deep apologies to the frustrated and >disapointed spectators. > > Let's hope for better days. > >END QUOTE
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