Author: martin fierz
Date: 06:32:01 11/17/03
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On November 17, 2003 at 09:17:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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? of course, but then kasparov would have complained about it had he lost game 3! cheers martin
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