Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:39:27 11/17/99
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On November 18, 1999 at 00:32:26, James Robertson wrote:
>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
First, he should give us a break. :)
Christophe
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