Author: Hans van der Zijden
Date: 04:23:40 01/30/03
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On January 30, 2003 at 04:33:59, Daniel Clausen wrote: >Does anyone know why the match Bareev-Hiarcs is played more or less at the >same time as Kasparov-DJ? Surely that's not a very thing to do, since >obviously the 2nd match draws a lot of the attention away. (as can also be >seen in CCC) Surely the K-DJ was postponed several times, so it was hard to >find a 'sure' date for the Bareev-Hiarcs match, but why didn't they postpone >it themselves? Marketingwise it's like they're not playing.. > >Sargon I think Bareev plays now because he was in Holland already. It makes sense to play right after the "Wijk aan Zee"-tournament. Furthermore he doesn't play at the same time as Kasparov. Even when a game lasts 7 hours you can still rest/eat for 1½ hour and than follow Kasparov - Deep Junior. Hans.
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