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Subject: Re: Deep Junior is the Winner but.....

Author: Terry Presgrove

Date: 20:48:34 02/16/00

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On February 16, 2000 at 23:19:43, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>Dear CCC Members,
>
>What we have here is a "failyooooor to communicate".  I do sympathize with GM
>Michael Adams because I had food poisoning in the tropics myself.  I also feel
>that the delays were too much for the man.  Deep Junior was doing over a million
>nps at times and it takes extreme vigilance to avoid tactical traps at these
>levels.  I believe that in the interest of having further grandmaster
>participation in computer events or vice-versa  it was wise to forfeit the match
>to Adams.

  Wise.......how so? More of a humilation for the DJ team.
>
>Unlike DB the machine DJ will live to fight again.  Next time it will be on a
>quad Intel 1,500 Mhz machine and have even more massive databases.  I do not
>think that the sales of Junior 6a will suffer because of this match.  If you
>think about it, there is uncertainty as to whether DJ would win the second
>match.  If we think that Adams would fall into the same tactical trap like the
>first game we are not giving him credit for the 2700+ elo rating he has.
>
>If DJ had been another human grandmaster then there would have been no debate

 You hit the nail on the head. I fail to see how any entry to an invitaional
tournament should be treated different from any other.

 as
>to the continuation of the game.  Life is not fair.  Adams remains a great
>player and so does Deep Junior.

 This was a chess tournament with rules which were not applied equally across
the board. If tournaments fail to apply the rules equally then they cease to be
valid.
>
>I just got my copy of Junior 6a and it crushes me in less time than Hiarcs 7.32
>and usually is two ply ahead in its' selective search than Hiarcs.  If you love
>Hiarcs then you will marry Junior.
>
>
>Tim Frohlick



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