Author: James Robertson
Date: 21:32:26 11/17/99
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On November 17, 1999 at 17:16:26, Christophe Theron wrote: >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 Yes, and now I wish people would leave Bill Gates out of things like this. James
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