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Subject: Re: Computer at NL Championship

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 00:53:14 05/09/00

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On May 08, 2000 at 11:51:23, Frederic Friedel wrote:

>Correct me if I'm wrong:
>
>1. The Dutch Championship 2000 has by far the highest prize money of any
>national championship in the world.
>
>2. The Dutch Championship 2000 is the only national championship with more than
>30 visitors (when I went to the US championships in Colorado some years ago
>there were two visiors who were not directly attached to the players -- I was
>one of them).
>
>3. The Dutch Championship 2000 is the only national championship in the world
>that makes the front pages of the newspapers (I noticed it was on page one of
>the London Daily Telegraph this morning).

Starting from this point of view, one could even consider to pay one of the
players to resign this way: this will increase by far the press coverage of the
event.

ciao
Franz

p.s. I seem to remember that somebody suggested, Kaspy was paid too to loose to
DeepBlue, after his sixt opening....



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