Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 11:14:32 02/08/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 07:59:30, Janosch Zwerensky wrote: > >>GK vs Deep Junior: Chess remained putting on the distance!! >> >>The strange-turbulent end in the 6. game between Kasparov and Deep junior showed >>all honest fans that (...) > >What we saw yesterday was a case of a "grandmaster draw". The fact alone that >there is a standing expression for this kind of thing should show you There is no way to transfer such terms simply because comps are no GM and the operators are often not better than amateur patzers. To speak of FACT is more than strange. >that this >is not something that happens with human-vs-comp-events *specifically*. To imply that "it" already happened is nonsense. > In fact, >I vaguely remember that at least once in the last few years they had a special >rule in a supertournament (I think it was Linares, but I am not sure about this >at all) that was meant to prevent the players from drawing without a fight. >One could also note here that, just like game 6 of this match, grandmaster draws >in general are known to happen in the last round(s) of an event more frequently >than earlier on. What have human chess tournaments to do with show events? That would be the same as if a GM would make a "GM draw" between a GM and a kid or political VIP or a Mayor or a beauty queen [that happened in the 80s between Karpov and B. Cimarolli]. ncredible nonsense! >Still, the fact that grandmaster draws happen in tournaments all the time does >not seem to lead a great lot of spectators to the conclusion that all the time >they are watching events that are staged, as a whole. That sentence makes no sense! Please better grammar. Rolf Tueschen > >Regards, >Janosch
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