Author: Jeroen van Dorp
Date: 08:02:12 01/14/00
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OTOH Kasparov has very little to gain by the match. He regrets his 1993 decision, because that sidestep didn't bring him what he thought it would bring. After that he wasn't able to convince in a match with a computer, now -in 2000- sure to be stronger. After that his world title was taken away by a tournament in Las Vegas. The only thing he can thrive on is the idea living in peoples's head that he is indeed the strongest chess player in the world. It's well backed up by tournament victories and Elo numbers, but Gary misses the decisive "one and only champion" mark. I haven't met him ever, but I get the impression that he has quite an ego, a good one for someone so ambitious. It's no judgement, just a possible fact. It is very well possible that in 1997 he thought while signing the agreement for a follow up that he would be able to collect more data about his future opponent. Now that the machine was dismanteled, he lost that possible advantage. That reasoning and consequences have been discussed already somewhere else here. Playing a new and better version point blank leaves him with insecurities for his status. If he wins, there will be people asking questions about Anand, Shirov or Kramnik matches. Winning computers is one, winning humans is two, they will say. If he loses it's all simple that most people will say that humans have had it in chess, and Kasparov isn't the strong one anymore. That will be a computer. It would turn out extra sad and sour if Anand should play also and beat the machine convincingly. And there is another possibility for Hsu getting mad: if you think you have an agreement, and the other party tells you politely that parameters have changed, you could feel a little bit taken all right. The fact that I hear Gary about every aspect of chess and chess play, the delicate aspects of FIDE politics without any hesitance; all except this one issue, handled by his agent, could also point in a direction to stonewall a rematch possibility. Well, it's all looking in the crystal ball, as I don't know nothing about Kasparovs thoughts and Hsu's. All we wanted was a nice spectacular match, played on the fringe of computer techology. The Chess world had an opportunity to vent other newsfacts than "dictator runs FIDE" "Las Vegas mockery" "WC players still received no payment" "chess world divided like boxing" and "yet another new GM association". Well we could go on, couldn't we? Jeroen ;-} jimvandorp@wxs.nl http://zip.to/jeroen
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