Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 05:50:34 02/10/03
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On February 10, 2003 at 08:03:08, Graham Laight wrote: >Oh - and by the way - my partner Tracey found it difficult to understand why I >was waking her up by going to bed so late. > >I kept telling her that it was a uniquely exciting and important event. > >I now realise what a stupid liar I've been. But I blame the players more than I >blame myself. Thankyou DJ and GK for your cowardly selfishness. > You are no "stupid liar" - don't make a mockery of yourself. We just disagree on the overall importance of such an event. Is it that difficult to cope with people who find these happenings interesting yet just another hyped media event? I thought it to be interesting, and knowing Kasparov over the years the guy is allergic to losing. It's in his genes wanting to win, to the point of cheating. Go ask Judith Polgar. There will follow dozens of man vs. machine matches, including world champions, vice-world champions, would-be world champions, ex-world champions, could-be world champions, anti-computerchess IGM-experts, teams of IGM's and IM's. People will always be interested in man vs. machine matches - be it a top runner against a formula one car, the strongest man against a dragliner, or a chess player against a computer. 99,9% of the people don't even know what they're watching, as even 99,9% of the chess players are not even remotely as strong as either Kasparov or Deep Junior. Even here most people put the position in their chess engines, and see what happen, else -like me- they wouldn't have a clue. >>Frankly - I'm finding it difficult to "relativate" - I am VERY angry. I, for >>one, will not be buying a copy of Junior in the foreseeable future. That is of course a feeling you have the right to hold. It is *your* truth, and that of many here, but what *I* wanted to indicate is that this is not necessarily *the* truth. I take those words back as soon as you prove that you can mind read and *know* what the ChessBase folks and Kasparov and his team were thinking. You are pretty convinced I must say. You don't have the obligation to relativate, but don't expect millions of casually interested others to share your lack of it. J.
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