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Subject: Re: hypothetical - What kind of match, and how much money?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 23:24:50 04/12/00

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On April 13, 2000 at 01:59:19, Pete Galati wrote:

>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

I would actually say the idea is actually too old. Most people I talk to say
that DB beat Kaspy and that's that. =(

-Tom



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