Author: Graham Laight
Date: 04:18:52 02/10/03
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On February 10, 2003 at 06:48:58, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >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 http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=782 Direct quote: "millions of TV viewers watching". So there. -g
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