Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 05:40:28 02/10/03
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On February 10, 2003 at 07:18:52, Graham Laight wrote: >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. Thanks, I let aside TV by people who won't buy a chess program. Rolf Tueschen > >-g
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