Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 02:41:44 02/17/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 19:38:09, Shay Bushinsky wrote: >Dear people, > >At this moment, I regret to say that my own company has decided to >discriminate our Deep Junior project and to declare >Michael Adams at his insistence to be the victor of our match. I don't see what a VP of your company has to do with a chess tournament and why it is up do him to decide anything. All this mess should have been taken care of by a committee at Kasparov Club, the organizers of the event. In any case, if Adams has an ounce of dignity left, he should withdraw. Enrique >This arbitrary decision was taken in spite of the ruling of the tournament >official referee, Mr. Boris Postovisky, and was explained as the product >of the inconvenience caused to Adams as a result of the delay incurred by >our ISP slow connection which obviously was beyond our control. > >In previous circumstances, when for instance Grandmaster Milos has disconnected >for over 20 minutes during his game with Morozevich no forfeit was declared >and the match was resumed. > >All above despite the fact that Mr. Adams himself had trouble connecting >and the match was delayed for over 90 minutes mainly because of his >computers not being able to connect. > >This is a very low point in our career as developers of Deep Junior >and we apologize to all our fans and to the spectators who expected us to >play a decent match. > >It is a great embarrassment to the company I work for and to myself especially >towards Amir Ban my partner and friend who is just an impartial participant in >this event as any of the other players. > >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 think that the net result is that all of us missed a great moment in life. > >Shocked with great disappointment, > >-- Shay Bushinsky (shay@chessdev.com)
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