Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:50:39 04/21/01
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Interesting and some of it is quite good. First, I noticed that the title of
World Championship was dropped and that is good. My grumbling immediately
dropped from a roar to a low murmur. The murmur is because there was a roar in
the first place. Secondly, the question of a selection process (the qualifying
tournament more specifically) behind closed doors was addressed, and again, that
is good. What others will make of this, I do not know. Many hard feelings are
already heartfelt, and that is clear. Why only these three program were invited
despite the existence of other clear qualifiers, in particular Ferret (if DB , a
non-commercial venture is invited, no qualms about the programs being commercial
can continue to stand up), will no doubt fuel a great deal of discussion still,
not to mention your return from self-imposed exile. :-)
Well, if no pretense is made to call this anything other than a spectacular
Man-Machine match, truly, BGN is allowed to do with it as they please, and the
very existence of ANY selection process is commendable all the same. For some
curious reason (_don't_ ask me why), a parallel of this and Fischer's 4 queens
endgame against Petrosian comes to mind. At the end, Petrosian was suddenly, and
unexpectedly better, but Fischer opined that he thought that by then, Petrosian
was too exhausted to change his frame of mind and suddenly play for a win. Let
us see if others can change their frame of mind in light of the changes.
You're still going to get a lot of heat for this, but at least these, the worst
points by far of the initial statement, have been addressed.
One question, which under the circumstances should be looked into. Will these
games be shown over the Internet? I would imagine there would be a great deal of
interest, and I for one would be curious to see them. Particularly as they have
been declared accessible to all in a public place. Think we could watch these on
ICC for example?
Albert
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