Author: blass uri
Date: 03:29:13 02/18/00
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On February 17, 2000 at 19:56:55, Laurence Chen wrote: >On February 17, 2000 at 02:43:11, blass uri wrote: > >>On February 16, 2000 at 23:19:43, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >> >>>Dear CCC Members, >>> >>>What we have here is a "failyooooor to communicate". I do sympathize with GM >>>Michael Adams because I had food poisoning in the tropics myself. I also feel >>>that the delays were too much for the man. Deep Junior was doing over a million >>>nps at times and it takes extreme vigilance to avoid tactical traps at these >>>levels. I believe that in the interest of having further grandmaster >>>participation in computer events or vice-versa it was wise to forfeit the match >>>to Adams. >> >>I do not agree. >>I think that the right decision was to play the match later when adams is not >>ill. >> >>I think that the fair decision is that if one player is ill then the game should >>be postponed. >> >>The human should also have a right to postpone the game to another day if the >>game does not start on time because of a communication problem because the delay >>does not change the level of the computer but may change the level of the human >>who is tired later. >> >>Uri >Fischer in his way to become the next World Champion, had to play Petrosian in >the final Candidates Match in 1971, and he had a cold. There was no decision to >postpone the match. >So, when humans play against each other, and one is sick, >the one who is ill can only have choices, continue playing or forfeiting the >match. In this case, why should be any different for Adams, he should be the >one forfeiting not DJ? I guess, this is called reversed logic. >Laurence I think that humans who are sick should have the right to pospone games against humans. I did not say that the fact that fisher had to play when he had a cold is fair. Uri
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