Author: Albert Silver
Date: 16:15:23 02/17/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 18:33:20, Dann Corbit wrote:
>The morbid fear of playing on against Deep Junior and the "true" result against
>super GM players shows that (I think) at G/60, a computer does play like a GM.
>Maybe even a super GM.
On a quad Xeon 500 and at g/60, I have no doubt that it plays like a GM, so you
won't see me disagreeing with you there.
>
>I think that Amir and Shay should be justifiably proud of their effort. Any
>machine+program that can strike fear into the heart of a super-GM is an
>astonishing thing.
>
>I think that Adams is not to blame for any controversy. If I were a player, I
>would always push for any edge I could get, even with the arbitration committee.
>
There I can't agree with you. I think you have to remember what it is all about:
playing chess. If there were a loophole in the organizational rules, I don't
think that that means one should strive to exploit it to the utmost. Could a
point scored under such circumstances ever be displayed without shame?
Friend: "So, how did your game go against GM whatshisname?"
Me: "I won."
Friend: "Really? That's fantastic! What opening did you play?"
Me: "Opening? We never got that far. My opponent had come back from outside
after smoking a cigarette, and I could still smell it, so I protested that
smoking wasn't allowed and that there were still traces of it from his breath
poisoning the air around me. He was disqualified."
Friend: "Beautiful. Must have been very exciting."
This actually reminds me of a hilarious strategy described by the great Goscinny
and Uderzo in "Asterix and the Britons" in which Caesar after having a hard time
invading the British Isles, discovers that the Brits won't fight during teatime
and weekends, so he victoriously schedules all of his invasions exclusively
during teatime and weekends.
The organization may have lacked competence, but if Amir's presentation of the
facts is correct, then Adams also lacked sportsmanship.
Albert Silver
>Any shame (and there is clearly some to go around) goes to the arbitration
>party.
>{purely}IMO-YMMV.
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