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Subject: Re: Was Gary involved in this scam?

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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