Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 20:07:53 02/16/00
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Phew! - I'm glad I didn't set any time aside to watch these matches. (What happened would have been too much of a letdown). Just proves the old addage, 'No good deed goes unrewarded', because It was a very cool thing that such a strong program was in this tournament, and it just 'figures' something would go wrong to knock it right out. I'm sure all kinds of 'reasonable excuses' will be made for the justifcation of Deep Junior being forced to forfiet, but it all looks a lot like Karpov did, when Compomanas stopped his match against Kasparov:) Larry T. On February 16, 2000 at 19:38:09, Shay Bushinsky wrote: >Dear people, > >At this moment, I regret to say that my own company has decided to >discriminate our Deep Junior project and to declare >Michael Adams at his insistence to be the victor of our match. > >This arbitrary decision was taken in spite of the ruling of the tournament >official referee, Mr. Boris Postovisky, and was explained as the product >of the inconvenience caused to Adams as a result of the delay incurred by >our ISP slow connection which obviously was beyond our control. > >In previous circumstances, when for instance Grandmaster Milos has disconnected >for over 20 minutes during his game with Morozevich no forfeit was declared >and the match was resumed. > >All above despite the fact that Mr. Adams himself had trouble connecting >and the match was delayed for over 90 minutes mainly because of his >computers not being able to connect. > >This is a very low point in our career as developers of Deep Junior >and we apologize to all our fans and to the spectators who expected us to >play a decent match. > >It is a great embarrassment to the company I work for and to myself especially >towards Amir Ban my partner and friend who is just an impartial participant in >this event as any of the other players. > >Mr. Adams who initially agreed to our draw offer in the adjourned game (lost >position for him) and was willing to continue and play a second game >until he changed his mind and said that after speaking to a VP of our company >was led to understand that he can claim a forfeit. > >I think that the net result is that all of us missed a great moment in life. > >Shocked with great disappointment, > >-- Shay Bushinsky (shay@chessdev.com)
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