Author: Roger
Date: 20:37:16 03/22/00
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I don't think it was JUST a refusal to play by phone, I think it was a refusal to let things become more chaotic than they already were. No game takes place in a vacuum, and whereas the computer is not susceptible to distraction by intractably hostile operators and by people who refused to pay her 30 days in advance, as agreed, a human is. Picture this: You are the women's world champion. You have agreed to play highest-rated program in the world. You are psychologically-prepared to play under certain tournament conditions. The expectations have already been outlined in terms of time and interface and so on. But now things start to go wrong. You can't be sure the games will start, you can't be sure how late the games will go. You're not even sure you want to be here, cause you feel cheated on the money to begin with. Everytime something goes wrong, it gnaws at you. Not only that, you are being painted as a problem by someone with a huge public profile, Kasparov (hey, it's his site, so in the eyes of the public, it's his opinion). After awhile, you say "Screw it," and you draw a line somewhere, because given the previous games, you have NO IDEA WHAT IN HELL COULD HAPPEN NEXT. Think that would distract you? Think it might piss you off? Yeah, I think so. You think the girl would be bitching had all the games taken place on time, as agreed? No. Raj On March 22, 2000 at 18:10:19, Rajen Gupta wrote: >It is very easy to taken in by Xie jungs open letter where she tries to curry >sympathy with the chess loving masses-and try to drum up opinion against >junior.however one snetence gives the game away-her refusal to play by >telephone-i dont see the diff between playing over the net (which after all is >nothing but a telephone line) and playing over a conventional phone-in either >case it would be very difficult to verify cheating unless an unbiased moderator >was physically present at each site. > >Her refusal to play by phone when the internet connections were down completely >exposes her thoroughly > >rajen
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