Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:07:06 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 12:47:10, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On February 17, 2000 at 12:28:27, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: > >>On February 17, 2000 at 11:16:12, Steve Maughan wrote: >> >>>As you rightly pointed out Amir and Shay have lost out more than anyone. >>> >>>Can I make a suggestion. How about having a 'compensation' five round match >>>between Deep Junior and Garry Kasparov. I'm sure that would make up for the >>>mess!! >> >> >>Well, my guess is that Gary might be the mastermind behind all this scam, >>because he did not want to play against DJ! So, after seeing DJ win vs Adams in >>game #1 he used the opportunity to elegantly kick DJ out of the tourney. Problem >>solved. Right or wrong? > >Wrong. If all he wanted was to get rid of Junior, it was enough to forbid its >entry in the tournament. > >Enrique While I doubt it too, it is remotely possible that a little "hindsight" convinced him that maybe this thing was stronger than he expected? At game/60 a computer is a terrible opponent. The main problem here is simply organizer incompetence. Hopefully they will learn for the next event, if there is one. But another lesson is to obtain advice from folks that know what is going on. This was predictable, and managable. _IF_ the right people had been consulted _before_ rather than _after_ the thing fell apart. > >>Andreas >> >>http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-schwaran2
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