Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 18:54:48 07/17/03
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On July 17, 2003 at 01:55:23, Uri Blass wrote: >On July 17, 2003 at 00:14:26, Luis Smith wrote: > >>>Smirin beated Junior,Shredder,Hiarcs,Tiger 5-3 >>>I think that it is better to give the challange to smirin. >>> >>>Playing with kasparov is a bad lesson for the top chess players. >>>They learn that they can draw a match and still get another match when a player >>>who won does not get another match so they have no motivation to win if money is >>>important for them. >>> >>>I think that the prize for winning should be not only money but priority to get >>>another match when in case of drawing or losing the first priority should be >>>to the best human who did not play against machines. >>>If chesbase does not decide not to prefer kasparov for another match in case >>>that he does not win then people are going to suspect that the human did not win >>>the match on purpose and it is only a show event. >>> >>>I see that kasparov is prefered for another match after the draw against Junior >>>and I think that it is a very bad choice of chessbase. >>>I guess that not a lot of people are going to be interested to see kasparov >>>against Fritz after the last draw against Junior. >>>I expect more people to be interested to see Smirin against Fritz. >> >>I doubt that, I think that most of the spectators are some-what younger crowd >>watching from the net, and when the name Smirin is brought up they think "who?". >> >>I believe people are more interested in seeing Kasparov play the computers, >>simply because he is Kasparov. #1 rated human player in the world. > > >I do not know about other people but I am not interested in a match with a >player who proved in the last game of the previous match that he does not want >to win the match. > >Uri Yes, Uri, yes! Charley
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