Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 19:51:07 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. > >2) To declare the match lost by DJ by forfeit which is to the advantage of >Adams. 3) To fix the damn technical problem. How hard is it to use a different ISP? Failing that, how hard is it to operate a phone? These people are from industrialized countries... -Tom
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