Author: Alvaro Polo
Date: 00:35:56 02/17/00
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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. > >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 as >to the continuation of the game. Life is not fair. Adams remains a great >player and so does Deep Junior. > >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. I hope that Adams doesn't get invited again to any tourney with Deep Junior as a participant. I believe that DJ, at this time of chess evolution, draws more audience than Adams. If Adams doesn't feel like to play, he should remain in bed and not be invited to any tornements. Alvaro > > >Tim Frohlick
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