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Subject: Re: International Master Jonathon Schroer has repeatedly offered to play

Author: Jonathan Schroer

Date: 08:01:48 11/08/98

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Dear Odell,

Thank you for accurately recalling our contact on ICC.  What you say about our
discussion on ICC is absolutely true.

On November 07, 1998 at 02:33:25, odell hall wrote:
>
> I believe it was about two months ago or less that he posted the article here.
>I personally talked to him on Icc. He said that he was "very interested"in
>playing such a match. He then gave me permission to suggest the match to this
>group.  And two days later to my surprise he posted a message here himself, this
>in my view confirmed even more his interest! Ofcourse there was I think one
>response to his post, so I imagine he got the impression no one was interested,
>which is obviously true from the lack of responses. I may be wrong but I think
>based on my conversation with schroer that he was Just as interested in the
>experiment itself as he was in money(which was not discussed). From my point of
>view if I was a programmer of rebel or genius I would jump at an oportunity like
>this to get exposure for my program. Schroer probally would not charge anymore
>than 300 dollars. Which to me would be a very investment for the potential
>publicity the program would recieve, win or lose!  Hiarcs is still recieving
>fame for it's victory against Internation Master Hergott. And this victory was
>the reason I bought the program.

Very truly yours in chess,

Jon Schroer



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