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Subject: Re: Surprises not likely!!

Author: Charles Milton Ling

Date: 14:17:27 10/30/00

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On October 30, 2000 at 16:40:17, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>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.
>
Hard to do with three games left.

>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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