Author: Mark Ryan
Date: 14:07:30 04/13/00
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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. Hi: I liked the old Candidates matches. The winner was the first player to score six points. It was a reasonable test, but it didn't drag on forever. The only problem with such matches is that one can get a lot of over-cautious draws. I would like to see the prize fund arranged so that there is a serious money award for each game won. Then I think we would see some exciting chess. Mark
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