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Subject: The Hand of the Vice President

Author: Jürgen Hartmann

Date: 00:41:02 02/17/00

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>
>Mr. Adams who initially agreed to our draw offer in the adjourned game (lost
>position for him) and was willing to continue and play a second game
>until he changed his mind and said that after speaking to a VP of our company
>was led to understand that he can claim a forfeit.
>

I wonder whether this Vice President wasn't Garry Kasparov by any chance? During
the game it must have become clear to many people that Junior would probably run
over Adams in the second game with White and then had a good chance to trash
Kasparov who is steadily loosing to computers since ages with another solid 2:0.

Kasparov loathed that perspective which destroys his market value for future
matches, computers and not. It also wasn't in the business interest of
kasparovchess.com at all. Looking at this powerful site it could be that there
is very serious big money involved.

Conspiracion theorists to the front: Where did the net problems come from?




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