Re: 1st Season Terminator TSCC - Queen's Gambit - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

Michael Alan Chary <mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Joetheone <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >"William George Ferguson" <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> >>
> >>>I'm not competent enough at the game to comment on whether the queen
> >>>sacrifice was realistic, though.
> >>
> >> There are Queen sacrifices (there are potential sacrifices for every 
> >> piece,
> >> except the King), but competent players tend to really examine the
teeth 
> >> on
> >> that gift horse.  Proffering a Queen sacrifice that is accepted, and
then
> >> checkmating in two moves, is completely unbeliavable at that level.
> >>
> >>
> >> -- 
> >More unbelieveable than killer robots from the future? 
> >
> 
> Yes, because while I'm not Lasker or Capablanca, I know enough about
chess 
> to know what is reasonable. I don't know any about killer robots from
the 
> future except that they are universally programmed to make a killer 
> oatmeal cookie in accordance with the sixth law of robotics, and so far 
> they haven't violated that on the show.

Isn't it also unrealistic that a tournament like this would be resolved
by a single game? World Champion****p matches are something like "best
of 24" or such, with a day or two between games. When computers are
involved, the AIs can be tweaked between games.