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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