Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:17:03 11/18/03
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On November 18, 2003 at 01:10:31, Mig Greengard wrote: >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? My turn. "Why would waiting for the board to be reversed be a distraction?" I've played in many tournaments myself (as a human). I have found the board colors reversed, and I just fixed them. I occasionally found the board rotated 90 degrees so that a1 was a dark square. I just fixed it. I didn't find that taking the time to fix the board was any sort of distraction at all, even if I did it before my opponent arrived. That seems to mirror what happened in game 2, but Kasparov made a big fuss about it just the same... Particularly _after_ the game was over. > 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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