Author: Graham Laight
Date: 06:27:33 02/10/03
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OK - thankyou for those platitudes. Now - if I may be permitted, I'd like to ask you two short questions: 1. Are you in favour of changing the rules for making or accepting draws in Man v Machine games? 2. Do you think that those of us who are will get our way without expressing our displeasure loudly? -g On February 10, 2003 at 08:50:34, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >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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