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Subject: Re: Even if Deep Junior lost the rest, its performance is incredible

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 09:21:31 07/12/00

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On July 12, 2000 at 11:59:50, Dann Corbit wrote:

>I see the tide turning in some of the message headers and now people are
>apparently jumping ship.

Seems like a lot of people just want to be on the winning team. Everybody's a
member of the Junior team when it wins and calls it stupid when it loses.

>Deep Junior has already gone toe to toe with some of the very best players in
>the world and come out much better than I would have imagined at this time
>control.

That's true.

>I don't think that Deep Junior will lose the rest of the games.  But even if it
>did, I would still be awesomely impressed by the incredible performance.

If you by performance mean points, then yes. Otherwise, I don't think the games
are that impressive except the game against Adams.

>It's amusing how with one win people are ready to proclaim D.J. world champion
>and with one loss, something inferior.  Kraminik is one of the elite players in
>the world.  A loss should not prove astonishing.

The "sense of reality"-gene is obviously missing.

>Whatever the rest of the results are, Amir Ban and company deserve broad praise
>for their astonishing efforts.

Absolutely.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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