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Subject: Re: Larry Christiansen on top of his game even though he lost to CM 9000

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:20:44 10/06/02

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On October 06, 2002 at 12:01:59, Brian Thomas wrote:

>I understand your points, and I don't at all consider Larry a weak player -- I
>admire him.
>
>However, I'm a little puzzles as to why he hadn't played CM9000;  nowhere was it
>stated (for the public, at least) that he couldn't play it before hand.  He
>himself (as far as I know, at least) said he hadn't played CM since 6000.
>
>A lot of people are boo-hooing the Kramnik match because Kramnik received a copy
>of Deep Fritz before the match, whereas in the Kasparov v Deep Blue match,
>Kasparov obviously couldn't play Deep Blue ahead of time, nor could he study
>Deep Blue games.
>
>The point that I'm getting at is preparedness is key; people are critical of
>Deep Blue because this was taken away from Kasparov.  People are critical of
>Kramnic because it is perhaps too much.  But in the CM vs GM match, it seems a
>mystery that Larry didn't take advantage of preparing himself thoroughly, which
>seems to be a big mistake.
>
>Brian

I doubt if it was a big mistake.
How much money did he lose from not winning chessmaster in that match?

Uri



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