Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 20:19:35 04/24/99
I brought this Rebel challenge up to my friend, GM M.R. (Has played in many human versus computer events, so it is easy to figure out who it is). I quote him as best I remember; "I'll email them about accepting this challenge, but there must be 30 other GM's who are already vieing to play the thing" I told him that I thought he had a good chance of being one of the early challenger's, as I figured that a lot of the other GM's around would be busy at weekend tournament's or were not all that Internet suavy. Of course I figured this would be a good experiment to see how quick these guys go after this challenge. I reviewed the conditions of the challenge to him as I was not sure he would be interested. M.R. is an atorney and doesn't necessarily need the money, but for most of his chess services he gets paid up front, so this would be something of a gamble, and I was not sure he would be interested in a 1 game match over the Internet, where if he loses, he gets nothing. M.R. "I doubt that I'll get one of the early slots, but if I do wind up playing, and I lose to the thing, it will give me some useful publicity". So my conclusion (true based on just 1 GM), is that this will attract a lot of GM competition to play the program, and that they are not too concerned or worried about losing the one game. Of course they would rather win or draw for the money, but since the Rebel versus Anand match, accept that anything can happen against this program. I'm sure that most G.M.'s will be glad for another injection of money from a computer software company, even though it is not that much (from their perspective), or that often.
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