Author: Pete Galati
Date: 22:59:19 04/12/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 00:59:25, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >If a match could be set up (by a serious sponsor or many), between a top >American GM, and a top Computer chess playing software on good hardware, at >standard time controls (40/2, 20, 1). How long should such a match be? What >kind of appearance fee's, and point money should the sponsor(s), be thinking of? > Of course such a match would be on ICC, and major TV/Radio, and Internet places >would hopefully cover such an event. Please give views and projections, based >on what has already been done, thanks, > >Larry T. I think it's mostly too new for there to be much precedence. You could break new ground. If you look at the Kasp/Deeper Blue event, don't look at the success of the match as an event, because that success was in the advertising that it got for IBM (an opinion), but look at the criticism of how the match was handled, and the complaints of Kasp, in order to avoid those problems. Pete
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