Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:14:03 10/15/00
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On October 14, 2000 at 17:36:42, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On October 14, 2000 at 17:31:19, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>kramnik-kasparov is dump human-chess. >>the one doing less mistakes wins. or not. >>kramnik could have won. he did not. >>thats all. >>those kind of games do not bring us any further. >>its always the same with chess-players/humans. they drift away from >>playing accurate. >> >>kramnik began good, and lost the path. >> >>typical for humans. and what can we learn ? nothing. >> >>since this is a computerchess group, i dont see the "sensation". >>it was a nice game. yes. i was myself very surprised. >>but then kramnik ruined everything, or ? >> >>ok. whatever. >> >>you will see it. of course. >>but still it is typical. >> >>the icca goes eating and drinking, having the dinner, the big-party, >>meanwhile the chess-programs and their operators/programmers >>have to continue their games. >> >>thats normal. >> >>yes. >> >>normal thing. >> >>so we only have to wait until you come back from eating. >>ok. >> >>i am sure when it comes to give the trophy to somebody, the icca board >>will maybe have ended eating. >>i see this picture right in my mind: jaap with a hot-dog in his hand, >>half eating and half giving the price to the winner, meanwhile >>the rest of the board is chewing on some meat or pommes-frites. > >But it is saturday, and nevertheless it rains. > >Enrique I think Thorsten is talking about the playoff in the 1999 WCCC, where the final game, which determined who was champion, was played in a fairly empty hall, since everyone had gone to a banquet. Something similar happened at the 1995 WCCC, where there was a playoff, yet no transportation was guaranteed after the game. So if I remember correctly, you either had to catch the last train, or risk having to walk some huge distance across China in the middle of the night. bruce
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