Author: Amir Ban
Date: 17:17:36 02/16/00
Lots of people want to know what caused the delays and clock issues in game 1. Here's what I know: The game was delayed by an hour and 40 minutes, for several reasons on Adams side in Bermuda: His computer didn't work. He switched to Seirawan's computer where the mouse didn't work, and finally he wanted to play with "move verification" to protect himself against mouse slips so the KC people organized this for him. The ISP of KC in Israel Internet-Zahav were having a very bad evening, and Internet was very slow. In the middle of the game I noticed delays of about 5-10 seconds between Junior's clock and the KC tournament clock. This got worse and worse as the game continued. By the way, Deep Junior ran automatic. KC do have the timestamp feature like in ICC, but for some reason it was not installed in the tournament tonight. This was just one item in a string of fiascos. Move 29 was not a communication problem. DJ considered Ng6, and the score came down badly, from about 1.10 to 0.56 I think, so it went into deep overtime. It still came out of it with 13 minutes left, an after that guessed the move for several moves and played instantly, so I wasn't concerned over it. Several moves later the Internet went into a near coma. On the last few moves, we lost several minutes due to lag for each move. I had a notebook with a KC viewer applet and an ICC window, and in the last moves we actually saw the moves reported on ICC *before* they showed up on the KC viewer :( Soon afterward the Internet crashed. Those of you who noted the final clocks saw it on the KC server in the US, but in fact the clocks were stopped after we were disconnected for several minutes. Much else happened after that, of course, but that's a different story, and I need to get some sleep now. Amir
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