Author: pavesyles
Date: 06:13:30 02/21/00
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On February 21, 2000 at 06:07:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On February 21, 2000 at 03:13:40, stuart taylor wrote: > >>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 > >Nah Amir isn't exactly the youngest person on earth, i had the impression >he's 1.5 times my age at least? I'm 26 now. > >If it wasn't adams out there but any other GM, fill in that name. > >I'm amazed that in the last game Piket when winning from the big master >didn't suddenly drop his connection and unexpectedly forfeited.... > >Vincent IF they are not going to run these tournaments correctly then who is going to care about the results>
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