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Subject: Re: Where is a guy who wanted to bet on Miki Adams ?

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 03:54:43 06/26/05

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On June 26, 2005 at 05:49:23, Günther Simon wrote:

>On June 26, 2005 at 03:10:56, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>On June 26, 2005 at 01:52:21, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>
>>>On June 24, 2005 at 18:27:30, Pedro Gomes wrote:
>>>
>>>>Have you lost your money, or perhaps accepted my advice ?
>>>>
>>>>PG
>>>
>>>He does not have enough experience on computers and did not study Hydra's games.
>>>
>>>Sandro
>>
>>Then he shouldn´t have agreed to the match in the first place.
>>You can´t take it easy, play an exhibition match against Leko and 2 weeks later
>>face a "Supercomputer" (for chess).
>>As a top ten player he earns enough money to make a living and is not dependent
>>on the appearance fee, or should I better say "massacre compensation".
>>He unnecessarily agrees to defend slightly worse positions with the white
>>pieces. He doesn´t even try to win a game.
>>
>>Michael
>
>People would do a lot unprepared for 100.000 bucks just for showing up.
>
>Guenther

It does not seem very clever to show up unprepared.
I doubt Adams will ever get a match against a computer again after this probable
disaster. But certainly he wasn´t completely unprepared.

Michael



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