Author: stuart taylor
Date: 00:13:40 02/21/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 22:20:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On February 20, 2000 at 19:57:30, C McClain Morris wrote: > >>I don't think anyone can argue with the fact that it was preposterous for Deep J >>to be forfeited against Adams. If during the course of a basketball game, the >>lights go out (a crash of another kind), I have never seen the game forfeited >>due to a problem that was out of the control of either participant. What's >>really going on here? Anyone have any ideas? >>C Morris > >Nah, just the normal tournament practice which gets overruled if junior >would've been a GM. > >If you're too late for a contest, no matter whether the lights from your >car went off, or whether you ran out of petrol, or whether someone >crashed into you, you're forfeited. > >For some GM's they make exceptions though. That's the unfair part. >Not the forfeit of junior is unfair, but the fact that they had no problems >delaying kasparov-piket for a day.... > >Very fair was however that piket won in a computerish way from kasparov, >just grabbing a pawn then defending the rest of the second game that pawn >till the endgame and win the game somewhere there. great show from piket. > >let's vote for renaming flyingpiket (handle of Jeroen Piket at icc) to >crushingpiket. > >Vincent It was not comfortable to try Adams patients any longer. Adams is a very highly respected international personality, whereas the computer program and its young programer in the background seemed much easier to dispense with. It was high stress for the organisers who were overwhelmed by Adams Aura. S.Taylor
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