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Subject: Re: Boycot the stupid Kasparov Grand Prix

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 02:58:30 02/17/00

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On February 17, 2000 at 05:50:54, Ritter Rost wrote:

20,000$ for the first price ain't much to play kasparov against a program.
i'm sure that if adams would have played another game against junior
and would have won that and then lose the blitz, that kasparov would have
refused to play an enemy of the grandmaster state.

>Yesterday night, a Vice President of kasparovchess.com ordered the result of the
>match Adams - Deep Junior to be 2 : 0 because of "internet lag".
>
>Kasparov watched Adams - Deep Junior and suddenly understood the very danger of
>losing to this machine in the next round. President Kasparov doesn't like to
>lose. So he ordered his Vice President to order the match won for Adams.
>
>We are totally bored to see Kasparov play Adams. We are bored to see President
>Kasparov win the Kasparov Grand Prix in kasparovchess.com. We wanted to see the
>fantastic match Deep Junior - Kasparov.
>
>So lets just not watch those boring human games and boycot the rest of this
>stupid farce of a tournament where arbiters are overruled by "business
>decisions".
>
>Ritter



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