Author: Mig Greengard
Date: 06:13:44 10/18/02
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Hello Rolf. Note that what's appearing on www.brainsinbahrain.com is 1) directed mostly toward the mainstream press and 2) hosted by the people who are sponsoring the match. The reports have to be straightforward, short, and easy to understand. They also have to focus on the one or two main facts of each story. (Who won, why, a few memorable phrases.) I try to make them entertaining, but there is a time and place for muckraking and uber-geek details, and that's not it. The content will also reflect the interests of the sponsors; that's why people sponsor things. My stuff at chessbase.com has more information of interest to the chess and computer chess communities, as does the live commentary I'm doing. I've been taking questions for Frans on some game days and have received several hundred. My last article at Chessbase has more jokes and mentions many things that wouldn't be relevant to Reuters (who seem to be copy/pasting directly from the official site, which is what it's for, I suppose). http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=152 I had also thought that this match was a bit of a joke, and that seemed confirmed after game three. But then things got very interesting and there is some real chess going on here. Game six was one of the best games I've seen this year, despite the final position controversy. (Which adds spice, really.) I hope to use the game machine to look at my analysis of the final position of game six, and since I'm with the organization I don't think anyone will mind, notice, or care. I won't have the hours necessary to do deep research, but I'd like to see its main line after 10 minutes or so in a few key positions, to see what it might have played. Mostly to confirm my belief that it would have walked happily into that drawn Q vs R fortress position. Saludos, Mig On October 18, 2002 at 07:09:26, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >Thanks, Mig, because you're the only one reporting from Bahrain. Yesterday I >read that you would do some research on game 6 with the machine, what was >confirmed by Frans Morsch. Is it still a real plan? On ChessBase Germany I read >that today some masters would play Fritz (Bahrain). Do you think that there is >enough time left for the research? > >Then another point. Since I've read you for a long time, I miss the old Mig with >the continual tongue in cheek reports. I mean, if the Bahrain event can't cause >you to laugh out loud, then what must happen? Where is the sophisticated Mig? >Sorry, if I missed something, business contracts and such. > >In short,I wished that you would give us reports on basic reality and not on >realities influenced by surface PR. If you agree I take your cat for a whole >week into my custody - in exchange! > >Rolf Tueschen >
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