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

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:59:44 -0800, ~consul
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>and thus William George Ferguson inscribed ... 
>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:37:09 -0500, Barry Margolin
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>>> The commentators also didn't see the mate coming, did they?  I'm not
an 
>>> avid chess player, but aren't there lots of games where the winner 
>>> declares checkmate, rather than the loser seeing it coming and
conceding.
>> It is possible for even the best human chessplayer to make a mental
error
>> and fall into a simple trap (as Spassky did against Fischer in
Rekjavek),
>> but the response when they (almost immediately afterward) realize what
>> they've done is to resign (as Spassky did in that game).
>
>I think in this case, didn't the human player do a move that wasn't
computer called? I thought they were arguing about "blahblah being any
idiot would know blahblah"?

There was no human player.