Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 14:21:16 01/11/00
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Please read what has been written by Hsu! He mentions nothing about Kasparov, only mentions a manager and Hsu doesn't mention what amount of $$$$$$ he offered to Kasparov. I don't see *any* line even that he offered money. Hsu also mentions he doesn't have money at all to finance the project. Looks to me like a man without a purse is trying to get a match going between kasparov and something non-existance. Now i don't blame Hsu for trying this, but let's look a bit commercial to this whole project: what investor is so stupid to invest in something that's not gonna give him back his money? Especially he doesn't need to do it for the PR. IBM took the PR already in 1997, who cares now about chess? Chess was already solved in 1997! Kasparovs manager probably isn't that dumb either. If he says yes for the same money Kasparov plays that match for 1$, as mr.Hsu didn't manage to get sponsors at all. So in short Hsu needs to give either more insight in what he has written to Kasparovs manager, and what answers he got back, before we can talk about what really is going on. The open letter from Hsu is simply very vague. I'm very sure that a chessplayer who lost a match wants a revenge. It has always been like that in history, and Kasparov sure is no exception to that. Like the posting of Amir indicated Kasparov surely didn't react negative to a single letter exchange between his manager and Hsu. On January 11, 2000 at 14:22:14, Miguel Arrospide wrote: >I have been following the discussions about Kasparov and Hsu. Some people seems >to miss the point. The point is that Kasparov is afraid. >Is Hsu asking Kasparov to play a match for FREE? No. So then what's the big >deal. Let's say Chessbase asks Kasparov to play a match with Fritz 20 for 2 >million dollars . Do you think Kasparov would turn that money down? of course >not. Rememeber Chess history. When unreasonable demamds were placed on the >challenger (such as collecting a big purse) it was done because the Champion was >afraid that he might lose. Lasker did it to Capa. Capa to Alekhine. Alekhine to >Capa. Botvinnik with his rematch clause did the same to the others. >Kasparov is one of the greatest chess players ever, but he is afraid. Kasparov >could have said to Hsu. Ok Ill play with your machine for $2 million but he >chose to ignore the challenge. >Lots of people accussed a few years ago IBM of not being "willing" to finance >another match. Yeah Right....! After Kasparov call them a cheat. I like Kasparov >but I can not defend his behavior anymore. He tried to change FIDE for his own >advantage. He found the PCA and then some other Association and then abandoned >them. He did not like Campomanes but then he made up with him when it serve his >purposes. He was a sore loser when he lost to IBM. He wanted a rematch and now >he refuses. He did not want to play Shirov.etc. etc. We need some Champion like >Max Euwe really bad.
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