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

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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