Author: stuart taylor
Date: 23:01:23 02/16/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 23:56:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Bob Yes! and Kasparov could have been roundly beaten 6.0 by Boris Diplomat! S.Taylor
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