Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:16:53 04/21/01
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On April 21, 2001 at 10:50:39, Albert Silver wrote: >Interesting and some of it is quite good. First, I noticed that the title of >World Championship was dropped and that is good. My grumbling immediately >dropped from a roar to a low murmur. The murmur is because there was a roar in >the first place. Secondly, the question of a selection process (the qualifying >tournament more specifically) behind closed doors was addressed, and again, that >is good. What others will make of this, I do not know. Many hard feelings are >already heartfelt, and that is clear. Why only these three program were invited >despite the existence of other clear qualifiers, in particular Ferret (if DB , a >non-commercial venture is invited, no qualms about the programs being commercial >can continue to stand up), will no doubt fuel a great deal of discussion still, >not to mention your return from self-imposed exile. :-) Actually you are looking at the wrong angle. IBM would _definitely_ put up money if they were playing. In fact, they would probably put up far more than anybody else including ChessBase, et. al. > >Well, if no pretense is made to call this anything other than a spectacular >Man-Machine match, truly, BGN is allowed to do with it as they please, and the >very existence of ANY selection process is commendable all the same. For some >curious reason (_don't_ ask me why), a parallel of this and Fischer's 4 queens >endgame against Petrosian comes to mind. At the end, Petrosian was suddenly, and >unexpectedly better, but Fischer opined that he thought that by then, Petrosian >was too exhausted to change his frame of mind and suddenly play for a win. Let >us see if others can change their frame of mind in light of the changes. > >You're still going to get a lot of heat for this, but at least these, the worst >points by far of the initial statement, have been addressed. > >One question, which under the circumstances should be looked into. Will these >games be shown over the Internet? I would imagine there would be a great deal of >interest, and I for one would be curious to see them. Particularly as they have >been declared accessible to all in a public place. Think we could watch these on >ICC for example? > > Albert
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