Author: Roger
Date: 20:25:55 03/15/00
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Even if we do believe that Xie is temperamental, does anyone believe that Kasparov would not be just as temperamental, if not more. As egoistic and defensive as Kasparov is (witness his reaction to the Deep Blue loss), you know that reports on his web page have to be horribly slanted. Roger On March 15, 2000 at 22:39:15, Tina Long wrote: >On March 15, 2000 at 22:23:22, Chessfun wrote: > >>On March 15, 2000 at 22:14:32, Tina Long wrote: >>>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. >> > >Absolutely correct. > >The whole ClubK narration has been full of Xie Jun: "demanded, refused, would >not....." > >I hope (not too hopefully) that we get to hear her side. She's been made out to >be Rude, ignorant, arrogant, addament, stubborn, unfair, etc etc. > >Maybe she has been all of this, during this match, but I would hope not. Her >reported attitude has been extremely "over the top". Has it been her, or her >"support", or Leong that's been acting like a spoilt prig? > >All this doesn't bode well for future such events. What would future sponsors >think of this shimmozzle? > >Tina
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