Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 07:44:39 02/17/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 20:17:36, Amir Ban wrote: > >Lots of people want to know what caused the delays and clock issues in game 1. >Here's what I know: > >The game was delayed by an hour and 40 minutes, for several reasons on Adams >side in Bermuda: Next time YOU claim a full point. What a mess :( Ed His computer didn't work. He switched to Seirawan's computer >where the mouse didn't work, and finally he wanted to play with "move >verification" to protect himself against mouse slips so the KC people organized >this for him. > >The ISP of KC in Israel Internet-Zahav were having a very bad evening, and >Internet was very slow. In the middle of the game I noticed delays of about 5-10 >seconds between Junior's clock and the KC tournament clock. This got worse and >worse as the game continued. > >By the way, Deep Junior ran automatic. KC do have the timestamp feature like in >ICC, but for some reason it was not installed in the tournament tonight. This >was just one item in a string of fiascos. > >Move 29 was not a communication problem. DJ considered Ng6, and the score came >down badly, from about 1.10 to 0.56 I think, so it went into deep overtime. It >still came out of it with 13 minutes left, an after that guessed the move for >several moves and played instantly, so I wasn't concerned over it. > >Several moves later the Internet went into a near coma. On the last few moves, >we lost several minutes due to lag for each move. I had a notebook with a KC >viewer applet and an ICC window, and in the last moves we actually saw the moves >reported on ICC *before* they showed up on the KC viewer :( Soon afterward the >Internet crashed. Those of you who noted the final clocks saw it on the KC >server in the US, but in fact the clocks were stopped after we were disconnected >for several minutes. > >Much else happened after that, of course, but that's a different story, and I >need to get some sleep now. > >Amir
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