Author: Hans Gerber
Date: 13:04:28 05/08/00
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Perhaps the players have a good argument against playing a computer since it can not (Robert Hyatt) be guaranteed that no cheating is going on with the machine. Next aspect. If you consider how badly Kasparov was treated by certain computerchess people after his match against DEEP BLUE, you might understand that chessplayers don't want to be just instruments for the glorification of a machine. Another problem. The money. In the case of Kasparov it was argued that he should have tolerated anything _because_ the prize money was high enough. As if chessplayers didn't have an almost aristocratic selfunderstanding. Take Fischer and now Kasparov, if something seemed fishy (to them) they protested no matter if they might lose a match or were expelled from the event! The argumentation by F. Friedel is very superficial that one had to be happy that the times had changed and no player had to end in an asylum of the poor. Chessplayers are like artists. They want to play chess and to create masterpieces.
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