Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:24:46 02/17/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 20:42:24, Charles Milton Ling wrote: Weird that i see a lot of these messages as below. If you play yourself a few tournaments you know that life is like that. If you don't show up in time, you forfeit in chess. As simple as that. If the junior team after investing a lot of money in participating the knockout tournament (or a sponsor of them) can't connect, then why not use the phone to phone to the kasparovchess.com site? junior was an easy victim now of something that happens in all tournaments a lot. One shouldn't be an easy victim. >I am deeply disappointed at the outcome of what promised to be an extremely >interesting match. >Let me say right away that Adams's "victory" leaves an extremely ugly aftertaste >in my mouth. >But I do have a spark of sympathy for him. Through various circumstances beyond >his (and *anybody's* control), he had to spend something like 6 hours (?) before >Game 1 was over. Yes, he got half a point more or less free there, that is >true. But to play another game soon after that, with no guarantee as to how >long *that* might take? And then perhaps reach a draw with Black and have to >play blitz against a machine that knows no fatigue? >Had it been possible to reschedule Game 2 for the next day, that would (to me) >have been the best solution. But the tournament schedule would hardly have >permitted that. >It is not an easy problem at all. Certainly one I would not want to have to >solve. >One thing, though, is for sure: the DeepJunior team deserves hearty >congratulations, even - or particularly! - in this dark hour. > >Charley
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