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Subject: Re: An idea for the match against kramnik

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 01:43:42 04/18/01

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On April 18, 2001 at 04:13:18, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On April 18, 2001 at 03:38:46, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I suggest the sponsors the following idea:
>>
>>Kramnik will get no information about the program that he is going to play
>>against(he is not going even to know if he plays against DeepFritz,Deep
>>Shredder,Deep Junior,Ferret,Gambittiger, Dark thought,Crafty  or maybe Deeper
>>blue).
>>He is only going to know the fact that he is playing against a chess program.
>>
>>If kramnik cannot win the match then he is going to get a revenge match against
>>the same program at the conditions that he wants(he get a copy of the program
>>that he is going to play).
>>
>>I guess that kramnik is going to agree to this idea if enough money is involved.
>>He should get more money for winning the first match when the program is unknown
>>but also a lot of money if he wins only the second match and the same money that
>>is suggested to him today for participating if he is losing the 2 matches.
>
>I honestly doubt that they will agree to that arrangement, however reasonable it
>seems. For publicity and sponsor reasons they need to present something that
>sounds legitimate. Choosing between Kramnik vs. Unknown and Kramnik vs.
>"Strongest" won't be difficult I imagine. And I fear it's a little late for
>suggestions.

There is no contradiction between unknown and "strongest" in the meaning of
winning a tournament.

It is more known then my suggestion because kramnik may know that tiger is not
allowed to play because of the fact that it does not support more than 1
proccesor but still kramnik is not going to know before the match if he is
playing against Fritz,Junior.Shredder or maybe Ferret
or Crafty.
(Enrique can invite every SMP program to his tournament and I see no reason not
to invite Ferret or Crafty on an alpha machine)

Uri



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