Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 05:56:52 10/20/02
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On October 20, 2002 at 08:04:18, Janosch Zwerensky wrote: >Hi all, > >suppose Kramnik deliberately threw the match against DF. How do you think then >did he make sure that Kasparov won't just smash Deep Junior in december, which >no doubt would now cause interest in Kramnik as an anti-computer-player to drop >considerably? > >Regards, >Janosch your mistake is that you believe those kind of "matches" are real fights. since the beginning of computerchess, those matches had only one GOAL: the company pays the chess-player for having a marketing event. the chess player is only a paid instrument. therefore he must create a good show. it would not be a good show if ONE side would win very good. therefore you have (as far as i remember) in all those show-events a strange behaviour of the human chess player in a certain situation. first it looks clear, and than suddenly it looks like the human has problems. this is part of the show. there is a need for a turning point. how often you watch wrestling fights ? do you believe wrestling fights are REAL fights ?
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