Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:16:26 11/17/99
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On November 17, 1999 at 09:24:30, Albert Silver wrote:
>On November 17, 1999 at 01:18:49, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>Yes, if Chess Tiger gets 2726 rating from SSDF games, it goes to
>>place 4. in PCA world list (after Kramnik and BEFORE Anand). Ridiculous or ??
>>
>>Jouni
>
>Of course I wasn't aware of the affiliation between the SSDF and PCA. No doubt
>these are the secret matches that SSDF isn't allowed to publish. Any idea what
>the complete match results between Kasparov and Mchess Pro 3.5 on a 486/66 are?
>I hear he dropped a game after someone told him it was calulating 480 million
>positions a second after which he tried as White a dubious 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6
>3.Qf3?! (lost his queen on move 16) in order to throw it out of it's book, but
>was equally furious when they (SSDF officials) later told him the operator was
>only joking and it was in fact only 480 positions a second. He threatened to
>drop everything and start a new federation called MEMEME, My Even More
>Extraordinary Me Entity, but put the idea on hold as Bill Gates's conditions for
>financing the project were that he (BG) have a permanent rating of 4000 on
>rating lists. Kasparov's objection that Gates didn't even play chess was deemed
>irrelevant according to an official Microsoft spokesman.
>
> Albert Silver
:) :)
Finally I'm glad that you left Tiger out of this!
Christophe
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