Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:17:33 11/17/03
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On November 17, 2003 at 05:24:57, Mig Greengard wrote: >On November 16, 2003 at 23:24:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On November 16, 2003 at 22:49:20, Peter Kappler wrote: >> >>>On November 16, 2003 at 22:22:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>There was something strange about the start. IE after Nf3 Fritz took over >>>>four minutes to play Nf6. That was odd. >>>> >>> >>>That delay was for a photo session. I'm pretty sure the clocks weren't running. >>> >>>-Peter >> >> >>That could be. However I was watching it on ESPN2, and they were finished >>with the nonsense pretty quickly. The clock on the monitor was definitely >>running, although I am not sure that it wasn't adjusted later... > >The clock was adjusted as soon as the VIPs left the room and the photographers >were shooed out. X3D Fritz had 1:59:59 on its clock after 1...Nf6. This is done >because such distractions only harm the human, as opposed to both players in a >human-human game or neither player in a machine-machine game. > >Saludos, Mig OK. That makes Kasparov seem even more petty than normal, however. He complained and whined seriously about game two, where the 3d board was set up with white on his side of the board. He claimed that "he was ready to play, and this was a distraction." Wouldn't disrupting the game between white's first move and black's first move, for 4+ minutes, be a _bigger_ distraction?
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