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Subject: Re: Lets go and tell them!

Author: Manuel Rodriguez Blanco

Date: 07:29:18 02/17/00

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On February 17, 2000 at 09:59:11, Jürgen Hartmann wrote:

>Boycot is ok, but more efficient would be to go to the site, click on "feedback"
>and tell their business jackos that they made a horrible mistake. People who
>love computer chess have a serious and valuable interest in chess - they are
>important visitors for such a web site, they have money, they read the banners,
>etc.
>
>Kasparovchess.com coldly decided that Deep Junior should be kicked out of the
>tournament and deprived the world of a wonderful computer chess event.
>
>Lets go there and lets write that we are disappointed and angry and want to see
>Deep Junior playing. Computer Chess and its fans also have a weight and a
>meaning, not only human chess.
>
>Jürgen.
>

I yesterday allready do it.

MRB.


>
>
>>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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