Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 21:54:14 02/03/03
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On February 03, 2003 at 23:28:21, Will Singleton wrote: >On February 03, 2003 at 19:45:29, Peter McKenzie wrote: > >><snip> >>>A pity that you do not read. Show events are NOT a possible tool to calculate >>>the strength. And hard competition doesn't exist. That's it. I still hold >>>that comps are 2400 at best in fierce tournament chess. >> >>haha ><snip much laughter) > >Not the best debating technique. fwiw, I agree with Rolf. The games are >interesting, and I enjoy analyzing them with my program, but there is no real >competition here at all. It's not a sham, but it's not real, either. > >I was going to compare this to pro wrestling, but it really is more like boxing. > Boxing appears to most people as a legitimate competition, and sometimes it is. > But the way money is made is to divide the purses, sometimes over several >fights. Then there's the gambling aspect, which applies to both. > >It is a show, and the gullible are taken in. That's fine, I don't care that >much. It's obvious how to make it real, but that won't happen, there's too much >to be made on the show. If anyone believes Kasp and Kram were actually trying >their best in their respective matches, then there's nothing I can say to change >your minds. > >Will Uh-Huh, right. Please explain where Kasparov is tainting the games. Kasparov does want to put on a good show, but not at the risk of losing the match, remember, he wants to prove just how good he is in wide open positions, where almost everyone will fail at now. Kasparov, wants to put the "Ghost" of DB behind him, as the public and much of the chess community, don't think he can win. Also the media doesn't know that Deep Junior isn't a supercomputer, so again Kasparov wants to show them how it's done! As I and others have said, Kasparov's ego won't let him just make a show of this, other than to show he's the best! Terry
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