Author: walter irvin
Date: 15:26:42 06/15/99
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On June 15, 1999 at 17:26:40, Mike Castañuela wrote: >On June 15, 1999 at 16:39:51, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On June 15, 1999 at 15:24:27, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >> >>>Dear KarinsDad, >>> >>>You are dead right on this one. If the SuperGMS rake in the shekels then >>>maybe the money would trickle down to the rest of the chess world. Don't >>>you think that chess is more important than baseball or basketball or wrest- >>>ling? Why should an honorable gentleman like Mark McGuire make millions of >>>dollars and a guy like Joel Benjamin just get by? The reason that chess or >>>checkers or bridge ain't popular is that the "populace" at large can't >>>comprehend the complexities of these games and so rapidly lose interest. >>> >>>With "bells and whistles" it might be possible to interest the general >>>population in chess. Who knows, folks like you or Mike Valvo might become >>>the V. McMahons of chess if you play your "cards" right. >>> >>>The future looks bright for advanced chess, >>> >>>Tim Frohlick, ACP (advanced chess promoter) >> >>Well, I do think that as more people start acquiring a taste for chess in the >>chess in schools programs, that a higher percentage of the population will in >>turn support chess at the higher levels. >> >>However, I do not think that prostituting chess with advanced chess is the way >>to go. >> >>I do not think that chess is more important than baseball or basketball. I like >>all of these activities. Just because we pay TOO much money to professional >>athletes does not mean that we should support advanced chess as a mechanism to >>get more money for the top chess players. >> >>Note: I am not saying that the top chess players should not play advance chess >>as a way to make more money. They can do what they want. I am saying that I >>think it is a bogus activity with a short lifespan (maybe 5 more years) and I >>definitely think that there are more long term ways in which to improve >>professional chess monies and professional chess in general. >> >>KarinsDad :) ACO (advanced chess opponent) > > >Another interesting thread; in this case I agree entirely with >you, it's fake ches, in the sense that the quality of game isn't >necessarily better, as Anand-Karpov match shows. In fact, Karpov play >very ugly, losing too much time, 'distracted' by to attend the computer. >I think that in his case, his result should be better without >computer assistance, playing natural. In efect, this appears to me >that it's 'prostituting' normal ches. Moreover, the attention >is too much less that a computer-human match to high level. > >Miguel - AACO (another advanced chess opponent) where has the human backbone gone?? man is scared the death of the machine ever since deep blue beat kasparov.i still think man can still beat machine , just not nearly as many men. people need to try harder to beat the computers other than set back marvel at how good the machine is.
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