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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 04:12:08 06/26/05

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On June 26, 2005 at 06:54:43, Drexel,Michael wrote:

>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

I do not know.
Smirin beated the machines and also did not get a match against machines later
so I do not see a connection between success against the machines and getting
future matches.

Uri



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