Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 03:48:58 02/10/03
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On February 10, 2003 at 05:58:23, Graham Laight wrote: >On February 10, 2003 at 04:59:24, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On February 10, 2003 at 04:47:40, Graham Laight wrote: >> >>>On February 10, 2003 at 01:37:24, Jouni Uski wrote: >>> >>>>Amir says Garry, but all other sources says Junior team. Who to trust? >>>> >>>>Jouni >>> >>>In a despicable act of cowardice, Kasparov made the first draw offer, which the >>>DJ team declined. >>> >>>Where did the second draw offer come from? Since the game was billed as GK v >>>DJ, and the DJ team are decent, honourable men, then one must surely assume that >>>the draw offer came from DJ itself, as it was playing the game. >>> >>>Wrong. Turns out, the final draw offer had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do >>>with the computer that was playing the game. >>> >>>Rather, the decision was made by Amir, Shay, GM Boris Alterman, backup copy of >>>DJ, uncle Tom Cobley, uncle Tom Cobley's dog, and uncle Tom Cobley's wife. >>> >>>It would be funny if it wasn't a game of immense importance with several million >>>people following and very rare TV coverage. >> >> >>Could you give specific evidence to support the several million people >>"following"? > >According to the comments made by Mig Greengard on the main applet that most >people were using to follow the game live, several million people were >following. > >There was also an applet available in which Sergey Shipov was commenting. I was >running both applets. > >This is all the evidence I have. I would expect a few hundreds. Maybe 1500. Rolf Tueschen > >-g > >>Rolf Tueschen >> >> >> >>> >>>-g
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