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Subject: Re: The Shocking, Tragic Answer.

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



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