Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 11:13:46 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 14:07:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Kasparov is familiar with Junior and he knew how good it is well before the tournament started. >The main problem here is simply organizer incompetence. Not to talk about taking the worst possible decision after showing the incompetence they already admitted. I still hope they can make for it by arranging a match Deep Junior - Winner of the Grand Prix immediately after the tournament. Enrique > 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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