Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:16:32 02/18/00
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On February 18, 2000 at 04:15:47, Mig wrote: >On February 18, 2000 at 01:18:27, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>One thing for sure: in the GM-challenge I NEVER would allow a GM to lose >>on time because of Internet problems. You just start to look for solutions >>the game can be continued. Maybe the next day, if not possible the day after >>and so on. Internet problems are nobody's fault and therefore nobody should >>be a victim of that. >> >>IMO game-1 should be continued by all means and the second game should be >>played thereafter. Anything else is highly unfair. The same applies in case >>things would have happened the opposite. >> >>A VERY bad decission Mig! > >I wish we'd had you on the line last night! I'm sure Piket, Svidler, Kasparov, >Adams, their arbiters, and the sponsor, arbiter, and opponent in Adams' Bermuda >match would have been delighted to see a postponement till the next day, >changing the days of the other games. Then answer this: Had Kasparov been unable to connect against Adams, what would have happened? OK. Suppose it wasn't Kasparov. Suppose it was some lesser GM against Adams. And _he_ couldn't connect because his ISP had been attacked by one of these denial-of-service attacks? And after you answer both of those, why is your answer different for Deep Junior, which is _obviously_ will be. I think _that_ is the thing most of us simply "don't get"... The internet is not 100% reliable. If you don't have a plan for failures, you don't have a viable plan at all. Even long-distance telephones are not 100%. Ask Monty Newborn/Ken Thompson/etc about the ACM computer chess events and the rules in place to handle potential phone outages (which do happen, sometimes for extended periods of time.) > Sorry, that's just not the way things are >done, even if it had been possible, which it wasn't. (Seirawan is leaving >Bermuda and their match arbiter leaves to another job even earlier.) > >I'm glad some people are actually reading my posts, I wish everyone were. IT WAS >A KNOCKOUT EVENT. Someone has to advance, the other games are the next day. >Unless you think we should have held the semi-final after the final, perhaps? No >further play dates were available to Adams because of the schedule of another >event in Bermuda. If it had happened to just about any other participant of >course we would have rescheduled, that was our first suggestion. We discussed a >dozen options. None were satisfactory. And the later it got, the less >satisfactory the options got. > >Saludos, Mig > >mig@kasparovchess.com
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