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Subject: Re: interesting comment from Kasparov on game 2 of '97DB...

Author: Steve

Date: 19:08:34 07/19/00

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On July 19, 2000 at 13:46:24, Dan Ellwein wrote:

>Emcee. What defeat was the most painful to you?
>
>G.K. I lost only one game to Deep Blue.

He lost three by anyone else's count.

 However it was not the defeat itself
>that hurt me so much, but my own light-mindedness before the match. Well, it was
>still possible to insist on a complete check-out of the computer, but I didn't
>do this. This defeat produced a really oppressive impression on me and a long
>time had passed before I recovered. And now I am proud that after such a loss in
>1997, aged 34, I managed to start anew and in a year's time I began to win all
>the tournaments again.

Yes, what heroism.  Lance Armstrong (who merely battled cancer) and returned to
win the Tour de France could no doubt learn a lot from a man who has managed to
deal so successfully with the LOSS OF A STUPID CHESS GAME.
>
>Excerpts from a speech before the students of
>The Humanitarian University
>St. Petersburg, April 10, 2000.



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