Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:32:43 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 11:30:29, Graham Laight wrote: >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. that was a match versus anand and it was 2 games from 40 in 2 the other 4 game were blitz level. or you refer to the v/d wiel - rebel match? the match van wely - rebel still has to be to happen and i saw only 4 games scheduled at Eds homepage. >-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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