Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:33:05 09/28/02
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On September 28, 2002 at 19:54:56, Tina Long wrote: >On September 28, 2002 at 19:43:55, martin fierz wrote: > >>On September 28, 2002 at 19:21:32, mike schoonover wrote: >> >>>he agreed to to the time control. > >If I recall, from previous posts by John M, >They initially agreed to play 60moves per 2hours (or 40/120?) but ICC >wouldn't/couldn't allow that to happen, so they compromised at 2min/move. > >Getting bogged down at move 6 is unfortunate, and was cleverly planned by the >Fischer personality. Actually, if anybody was in time trouble early, it was the Fischer personality. Larry got him out of book in move 2! ><conspiracy theory on> >I think it's all rigged. >Flog the Alekhine & Botvinnik (sp? sorry) personalities. >Get flogged by the Fischer and CMDefault personalities. >Sell a few thousand more copies in the USA. >That's why we can't get it in Australia. ><conspiracy theory off> I love conspiracy theories. However, in this case, you're slightly off. We originally intended to use the Botvinnik personality in Game 2, and Capablanca in Game 3. Since nothing official had been announced yet, and we got our hat handed to us in Game 1, we decided to make a last-minute (last-hour?) change. Fischer played game 2, and now Botvinnik will play game 3. >Wonderful stuff John, Thanks. The first game was pretty dull, I imagine. But the second game was fireworks! As I have said, we will be ecstatic to draw the match. jm
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