ICC News Item #812

NEWS 812 (8-Nov-97)
Team ICC versus kasparov match results!

Garry Kasparov played two teams live on ICC, as part of a larger
promotional event in London.  (See news 800 and news 811 for more info.)
Team 1 consisted of:

      Knightrunner (captain) Catarina  Minstrel RA and Torr

They put up a great fight, but resigned in 54 moves.  The game is
viewable as "examine kasparov 38".

The second Team consisted of:

      Rossa (captain) Atanas mbreul and Sabalero

This team did surprisingly well.  The position was unclear after 29
moves.  (You can examine the game with "examine rossa kasparov2nd".)

Kasparov was surprised by the strength of the team.  Kasparov
protested, and the game was not completed.  When fielding the team,
the ICC was asked to find players of under 2200 strenth.  But it
turned out that Kasparov had wanted a limit of 2000.  This confusion
led to a team that was much stronger than Kasparov expected.  In fact
one of the players on this team (Atanas) is clearly much stronger.  He
has a best on ICC of over 2400.  Of course we wish the game had been
completed as planned.

I want to thank the teams, and the admins, and particularly JDoss,
ThomasTallis, and Gotham for making this event happen.

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