Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:56:29 02/16/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 23:48:34, Terry Presgrove wrote: >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 The problem was that the organizers were simply incompetent to do the job. The possibility of a serious communication outage was apparently never considered. And folks wonder how Kasparov got rolled over by IBM and Deep Blue? If Kasparov had this type of preparation for that match, it is amazing that it was as close as it actually ended up.
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