Author: Mig Greengard
Date: 22:10:31 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: > >>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? Why would waiting for the room to quiet down be a distraction? Plus, he was expecting it. It is done in order to give Kasparov time to settle down at the board after all the commotion. When his ceremonial move is made by the visitor he is still standing there with several other people and a phalanx of photographers. If would be a disadvantage and also rather anticlimactic to have X3D Fritz instantly belt out a reply and have Kasparov's clock ticking while he's still standing there. Delaying the start of the clock after a ceremonial first move is also common in human-human events. Photography and noise is a different story, but then it bothers both players which isn't the case here. Anything unexpected before a game will earn comment from just about any player. That's not to say there aren't prima donnas, but when you are worked up for a level of concentration few people on the planet ever come close to you don't like to have it derailed. Sitting down to the board and having it turned the wrong way is trivial, but still a distraction when the arbiter and a technician have to ask you to get up while they try to fix it.
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