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Subject: Re: FortKnox analysis of some of his games on ICC

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 14:38:18 01/13/06

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On January 13, 2006 at 16:34:52, deep.thought wrote:

>Jay this looks highly suspicious to me.  Maybe your comp was playing
>Fortknox(C)?  In which case Fortknox(C) is either having a laugh with his Fritz
>generated and editted "analysis", or this is a very sad individual, or a GM with
>too much time on his hands :-) Who knows.  I would ask speedtrap to analyse the
>games.  Note that Fortknox was at one time forced to have a finger note saying
>that he used a database for openings.  I guess the ICC admins don't know that he
>removed that finger note it yet.
>Good luck selling those linux clusters!  The IBM share price really needs help.

I don't think FortKnox uses a computer for playing.  The admins did put a (C) on
his account at one point, because he was using his own opening preparation
(which he admitted).  But they have since removed it.  Why do I think this?  Two
reasons - one, I have talked with him frequently over the past several years and
I trust him.  Two, I've seen him blunder too many games to believe he's using a
computer for assistance. :)

I do subscribe to the GM with too much time on his hands theory, but this could
be said for a lot of the top players that hang out on ICC. :)



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