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Subject: Re: No. The decision is bitter but understandable.

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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