Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 02:18:57 05/09/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 20:16:51, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >>You can't be serious. Have you _ever_ seen a human 'in a serious contest' >>resign after only four moves. Unless he played class F chess :-). Not a 2450+ >>player, definitely. > > >Farago,I (2540) - Jansa,V (2500) [E61] >AUT-chT, 1994 > >1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 g6 3.c4 Nf6 4.Nc3 1-0 > >:) > >>Bosboom's behaviour was not gentlemanly, nor was it >>productive. > >The KNSB's way to handle thing wasn't either. Why are you only blaming one side, >while it's obviously a two way street? > > >>_No one_ gained anything. Everybody lost. > >You're dead right. I wished the KNSB realized that after the ongoing storm of >protests. They turned it down even without looking at it. > >>Especially this forum >>which would actually be very much interested in a genuine playing performance >>by Fritz (or _any other top_ program) in such a strong tournament vs humans. > >You are right again. This forum would. But a chess players community, often >playing for their living, don't want to get stuck in a roulette: will rules >apply this time? Will they be changed depending who's at the gate? > >If the tourney organisation sticks with its rules, everyone's okay. >The Dutch federation didn't. That's what's this about. Not about anti-computer >feelings. Jeroen, I must admit that you have a very balanced view about this event :-). Seriously. However, I think that I could come up with some additional arguments shoring up my position (oh, I am not blaming only one side, I do go along that the KNSB made some very strange decisions...) About the game you quoted, are you sure that Jansa was not Bosboom and that White was not Fritz 2? *** Djordje
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