Author: Graham Laight
Date: 08:30:29 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 11:20:29, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On January 02, 2002 at 20:41:36, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On January 02, 2002 at 20:29:11, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>>Last, I have no time. Loek van Wely is on the menu and Gandalf 5 is going to >>>play 4 correspondence games against 4 x IM's. I need all my time for those 2 new >>>events. >> >>Fear or no fear, the net result is that Rebel and Tiger are about >>the only strong professionals that are missing from the field from >>what is becoming a more and more important tournament. It seems >>that your competitors do not have the same reservations as you >>do. > >In Eds case it clearly is not fear for the unknown. Rebel >used to show up in nearly no event, commercially suicidal of course. >I was really happily amazed it showed up at dutch open, >thanks to Jan Louwman. > >Commercially the match versus Van Wely is like a million times >more important of course, but no way to prepare for Van Wely for Ed. > >Only Jeroen could possibly mean something there, which means that >Jeroen declined to play CCT4 with either tiger or Rebel. > >Also the match against Van Wely, do we again not get live >internet coverage because some long grey haired 1200 rated >guy wants to add 'good analysis' with fritz5.32 at a laptop first >to the moves (instead of adding any analysis later)? > >I remember him commenting things like "bad move from Rebel" (rebel >at a 1.xGhz machine running at 3 minutes a move and the laptop at >2 seconds a move with fritz5.32). > >I drove for 5 hours in total to watch that spectacle >against John v/d Wiel, to find out that i was 'lucky' this day >that i was allowed to enter the building as there was no meeting >from the local township (in which case the game was played >at 5th floor where no spectators are allowed). > >The organization was a joke to say it with one word. How they >could declare the match to be a 'clear succes' from commercial >viewpoint (no audience was watching except me and Ernst Walet. >later that afternoon >1 or 2 spectators joined for a few minutes then went away, leaving >just me and Ernst Walet behind as only spectators) is >a big mystery to me, but for the sake of chess and computerchess >i will laugh not too loud. > >Hopefully they learned from this, but i doubt it considering their >mentality. > >What i don't understand is why it's just 4 games this time. Of course >that's better than 2 or 3 games (or 0 games) but it's real little. > >Van Wely asked more for 6 games than the budget allowed, but was happy >to play 4 games for that money? According to the Rebel we site, Rebel won 3.5 - 2.5, which implies that 6 games were played. -g >>As Dann said, no time is a bad excuse. I'm sure there are a lot >>of people on this board that would like to operate Century 4 >>or Chess Tiger. > >>If you don't play, you'll never win. > >>-- >>GCP
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