Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:57:18 02/18/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 18:52:59, Terry Presgrove wrote: >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 Almost all of my sentences end with a period. :-) Dave
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