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Subject: Surprises not likely!!

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 13:40:17 10/30/00

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On October 30, 2000 at 16:27:10, Marc van Hal wrote:

>Looking back at his older battles for the championship he may surprise the world by winning all games left.

Marc,

Yes, that could happen.  The odds of it happening are, however, 1,000,000 to 1 .
More likely, Kasparov will win one, draw one, win one, draw one and thereby
retain the title.  Everybody likes a match where the trailing team comes from
behind.  It adds to the excitement.

The drawish play of the two chess giants is sort of what happens when you have a
10,000 horsepower locomotive pulling in the opposite direction of a similarly
powered locomotive.  The outside observer doesn't feel the strain on the "tug-
of-war" connecting cable and might say that nothing is happening.  We prefer the
action of two such locomotives colliding with one another at 200 Km/hr.

Such is life,

Tim Frohlick



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