Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 10:04:48 03/14/99
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On March 14, 1999 at 10:29:07, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi Paulo: >I bet at your last hypothesis: low emotional intelligence or whatever the name. >I have seen the same in so many players that I have no doubt about it. My friend >IM Vásquez, even being an extraordinarely different kind of guy with respect to >average high level players, has been voicing the thesis of cheating of IBM from >the very first minute, even before Kasp. He identify with Kasp as member of the >same elite of high level players -or he would like to be thought as part of it- >and so with a coprorative kind of attitude he support the cheating thesis wit >great vigour. And his arguments are incredible poor. In fact, the argumet is so >simply as to say that Kasp. cannot be defeated by a program AND SO cheating >should be the cause. And then he at the samer time sustain the enterely >different thesis that Kasp. gave the game by his own will in order to probe I do >not know what. This people simply does not accept the fact they can be defeated >by a simple "piece of furniture" as once I heard to say with some humour to GM >Miguel Najdorf. So they tend to be paranoid in this. Remember the match between >Fisher and Spassky and how this last one and/or his asociates said some kind of >electronic hipnotizing devices were putted to disturb his play? >Fernando Fernando, You confirmed what I suspected, Kasparov has a low emotional intelligence or either, he is immature. But therefore he even does not admit the defeat for " Deep Blue ", he already admits that the computers are very important in his studies, as he declared after the tournament of Hoogovens/Wijk aan Zee. I believe that in the year 2000 Kasparov already will be here, in the CCC, placing messages of the type: "How can I use tablebases with Crafty?" Paulo Soares
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