Author: James T. Walker
Date: 04:01:54 11/20/03
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On November 19, 2003 at 21:39:18, Matthew White wrote: >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. Actually Kasparov played the opening very quickly untill the 13th move when he stopped for over 20 minutes. I don't think anything bothered him untill he had to decide which way the game should go from there.
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