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Subject: Re: X3D Fritz took quite a while on some book opening moves!

Author: Matthew White

Date: 18:39:18 11/19/03

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On November 19, 2003 at 20:44:50, Rex wrote:

>On November 19, 2003 at 19:54:08, Matthew White wrote:
>
>>On November 19, 2003 at 19:43:11, Brian Katz wrote:
>>
>>> X3D Fritz took quite a while on some opening moves. What was the reason for
>>>that? Notice the third game against Kasparov. It took forever to play it's
>>>opening reply and then it began spitting out the moves like normal. It then
>>>played like garbage.
>>> In the last game it took quite sometime on some opening moves which are clearly
>>>opening book moves. This is quite out of the ordinary.
>>> Does anyone have any views on that?
>>Play was paused to allow all of the camera people to clear out of the room. This
>>was only a disadvantage to Kasparov, since it broke his concentration. As a
>>result, Fritz's clock was not running as the press cleared out, then Fritz was
>>started up and play continued.
>
>
>How do you know this was a disadvantage for Kasparov?  From what I here this is
>what he wanted.  He was informed well in advanced about the guest and camera's
>in the room for the 1st move.  Please state that these are YOUR opinions and
>stop throwing these wacky ideas out unless you can back them up.  tnx
I mistyped. What I meant to say was that having play continue with the camera
people leaving the room was a disadvantage to Kasparov.



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