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

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 04:35:58 06/26/05

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On June 26, 2005 at 07:12:08, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Smirin and Huebner, who drew Fritz, are just not high enough ranked to get
further matches.
Why should someone play opponents that can make the computer look pretty stupid
if there are higher ranked players who don´t have a real chance?

If Adams had beaten Hydra he surely would have gotten a rematch with higher
appearance fee.

Michael




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