Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 15:52:59 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 17:31:13, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On February 17, 2000 at 15:35:33, Terry Presgrove wrote: > >>On February 17, 2000 at 15:16:09, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>On February 17, 2000 at 09:31:10, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On February 17, 2000 at 09:10:19, Jouni Uski wrote: >>>> >>>>>To continue this "tournament" is pure waste of time as Kasparov is already >>>>>declared as winner. Why can't Adams / DJ re-played??? >>>>> >>>>>Jouni >>>> >>>> >>>>I believe someone is 'afraid'. I am not convinced it is "Adams" however. >>>>I'll leave the rest to your imagination. >>> >>>Come on. That's as ridiculous as some of the stuff people post about Deep Blue. >>> >>>Dave >> >> What do you base that statement on ....Dave? Kasparov is on record as saying >> his next computer match would be for big money. Seems pretty logical to me. >> He has a big ego....obviously.....I doubt he gave much chance for DJ to make it >> as far in the tournament. Maybe my 50 years have mde me scenical, but it >> certainly is not out of the realm of reason. At best KC set it's self up for >> this type of conjecture by thier own incompentence. >> >> TP > >I base it on the fact that Deep Junior was one of the participants, period. If >Kasparov didn't want any chance of playing a computer, they could have just got >a 16th GM to play. > >Dave Your assertion....." they could have just got a 16th GM to play".... is of course a valid point. But ego, power, and money have more of a bearing in our lives than most want to admit. Perhaps you are right on this one ( and I hope your are right ), but the debate is not settled just because the sentence ends with "period". TP
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