Author: Peter Herttrich
Date: 04:41:00 10/18/99
Sorry for the format, comes from a ugly cut and paste :-(
Now here the opinion, what i've found in the C't, a german
computer magazine. Any 2 cent?
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Bil Gates, biggest cheater in the world ?
German rachmund@yahoo.com (18. Oktober 1999)
Bil Gates, biggest cheater in the world.?
The chess game between Garry Kasparov and the World
organized by Microsoft on the
MSN Zone became the biggest scandal in the chess history.
The game begun on June this year and became the nigntmare
for Microsoft while lasted
too long and without the end in sight.
Microsoft yesterday in the critical position didn't post the
recomendation of the leading
World analyst Irina Krush "because of technical reasons", as
they say.
On the other hand two or three other analysts, Elisabeth
Pahtz and Etienne Bacrot
recomended the move which on the World team chat board was
analysed in depth and
which was estimated unanimosly to give the direct win to the
World Champion.
The world team also complained before to Microsoft claiming
that the voting is irregular
because the vote stuffing was possible. Microsoft didn't do
anything about it.
The losing move was voted yesterday instead of the correct
one and the World team
came to idea to give up their queen as the sign of public
protest against such Microsoft
manipulation.
The entire story is in dramatic development right now.
It seems to be the breaking news story!
Please alert all media which you are in contact with about
this and give them these
information!
Such things happen once in the sectury!
Go to the official chat board of the World chess team to see
the details:
http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/kasparov-team/index.asp
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The story is the absolutely unique scandal. And it is going
on. The last development is
that Microsoft decided to ignore the protest move and
declared SOME OTHER MOVE
TO BE THE MOVE OF THE WORLD TEAM in spade that the protest
move got far,
far biggest number of votes and in spade that that move was
ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE
AND LEGITIMATE chess move.
The Microsoft "argument" to do that is that there was a
"ballot stuffing" for that move
during the last World voting.
But when the World team complained MANY TIMES before about
that possibility and
that such possiblity ruins possibility of the World correct
voting, the Microsoft did
NOTHING about!!! Many times till now they allowed even
EVIDENT BLUNDERS and
ABSOLUTELY ILLEGAL MOVES to be presented among "Top 5 World
choices" on
MSN site!!!
Evenmore, there is very spread oppinion among the World team
members that the
World losing move (58...Qe4??) was ballot stuffed against
them!!!
Such scandalous end of this great game clearly ruined
everything positive achieved
during this event.
We'll see what would happen in the future with this kind of
chess events, but there is no
doubt that the big damage to the chess in general was
already made.
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