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Subject: Re: What about a Candidates tournament to select Kasparov's challenger?

Author: walter irvin

Date: 17:11:20 10/06/00

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On October 06, 2000 at 12:39:11, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On October 06, 2000 at 10:12:21, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>
>>I already said in another post that for me it is fine if Shredder matches
>>Kasparov, but I also understand that many would like to have the sme
>>opportunity, and that they don't consider WC as the final judgment.
>>
>>So now I think that there should be a candidates tournament to select the
>>challanger!
>>
>>What a wounderfull event would it be.
>>Any company allowed to submit at most two entries, a couple of Zonals to select
>>the 8 challangers and a series of direct elimination matches to the score 6 like
>>in the old Fischer's days (o gosh I named Fischer miself in this forum...I
>>apologize).
>
>Rather than a candidates contest in normal format, I would like to see a
>round-robin tournament with ten games between each program and perhaps the top
>ten programs involved [if we can figure out what they are].  It seems that the
>new Chess Tiger {with a G} will be a real shining star.  Or is it just early
>exueberance from the beta testers or a fortunate series of event trials?  Hard
>to say without detailed evidence.
>
>No doubt about it. Fischer should be the CCC equivalent of Godwin's law.


i think there should be a match between fischer and kasparov to see who plays
shredder that way we have 2 REAL world champions playing for title (shredder and
K OR F)
>;-)



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