Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:34:49 11/21/03
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On November 21, 2003 at 04:39:22, Ed Schröder wrote: >On November 20, 2003 at 23:23:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >[snips] > >>How about doing a couple of things: >> >>(1) tell the entire story. > >The whole story is on: http://www.rebel.nl/match.htm > > >>(a) one game doesn't mean _anything_. (b) Ed >>played multiple games with crafty and rebel having a _very_ long time for >>each move. > >>Crafty won. > >Crafy lost, see the above link. I will look. When you first had it up (chess 2010 or whatever it was) I remember something like 3:0. I'll refresh my memory as I saved it somewhere. > > >>Does that prove anything? Nope, other than the >>one handicap game was meaningless. > >>(2) I'll be _happy_ to take you on at 100:1 time odds, anything you think >>you are ready. I'll even put up a wager to make it interesting. I am >>talking about a match of at least 10 games. Interested? You'd be >>stupid if you were. Because I wouldn't play _any_ program at that time >>handicap, including the original Sargon... > >I would take the bet against the Crafty of that time, which was the point. > > > >>>>But that's not good for business, ist it? It looks to me that the status quo >>>>favors your interests. >>>> >>> >>>So it's the money motive working here ? This would be an object lesson on how to >>>bring industry giants and ivy-league colleges to their knees: make them travel, >>>or make them get a $50,000 sponsor. >>> >>>Amir > > >>It is _several_ things. The biggest is that we have an organization >>that was formed with the sole purpose of fostering interest in computer >>chess "around the world". It is no longer living up to that charter. >>It is now fostering computer chess interest in Europe, mainly. Which >>is fine. I've already re-named it to the ECCI or ECGA, which is much >>more descriptive... >> >>It is easily possible to get a company to provide hardware, and some >>publicity money, and even some prize money. But not a big chunk of >>change that goes into a black hole called the JICGA, which won't >>benefit the donor whatsoever... >> >>If you tax someone too much, they move away. > >You don't know about the failed negotiations tries of the ICGA in the US, nobody >knows. > >My best, > >Ed
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