Author: Pete R.
Date: 09:26:29 01/14/00
Go up one level in this thread
On January 14, 2000 at 11:02:12, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >If he wins, there will be people asking questions about Anand, Shirov or >Kramnik matches. People already asked questions about a Shirov match, but it's just not as popular as Anand. Anand would happen before this computer match anyway. I don't think anyone will have doubts that Kasparov is the best. >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. So what? Many believe this already after DB2 beat him. Anytime DB is named in the press, its second name is "the computer that beat World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov". I believe Kasparov would be foolish to ignore the opportunity for a big money match, since I don't think many of those are left. After Anand, where will big money match be? Kasparov may as well take on a computer now and get paid for it. Someday a toaster's computer chip will be able to do it, so he had better strike while there is still a shred of doubt left. He himself has engineered the only shred of doubt by insisting that IBM cheated. He set the stage for a rematch in this way, and now he doesn't want it??
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.