Author: Eric Fitch
Date: 12:55:37 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 10:43:08, Martin wrote: >On February 17, 2000 at 05:50:54, Ritter Rost wrote: > >>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. > >I don't believe this conspiracy theory. Read >http://www.clubkasparov.com/serve/templates/dispchessdoc.asp?p_docID=2499&p_docLang=EN >Mig Greengard and his team are responsible for the decision. They had two >choices: > >1) To postpone the second game which would have been to the advantage of the >machine. > What advantage are you referring to here? By postponing, do you mean playing another day? If so, I can't see how that would result in an unfair advantage to DJ. Adams other commitments to other matches should play NO part in any official decision by KC. That's a scheduling conflict he should have thought of before agreeing to participate. >2) To declare the match lost by DJ by forfeit which is to the advantage of >Adams. > >I think too, that in this situation no 2 was the only possibility. Mig writes: >"The forfeit was by no means the fault of Deep Junior, its operators, or the >KasparovChess.com software, and to our knowledge all of the above performed >quite well. [...]" >"They, particularly the Junior team, have good reason to be outraged at their >misfortune at the hands of fate and our disregard for proper protocol. They have >the sincere apologies of the entire KasparovChess.com team, and as >editor-in-chief they have my personal apology for allowing such a marvelous >opportunity to turn into a disaster through my own negligence." > >There's nothing to add. > >> >>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. > >Yes, I'd like to see it too. We all - even Mig I'm sure - would like to see that >match. >Now we have to wait for the next opportunity. The show must and will go on. > >Martin > >> >>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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