Author: Duncan Stanley
Date: 11:02:59 04/22/01
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On April 22, 2001 at 12:26:25, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > >I have received from the ICCA President David Levy a copy of an open letter >concerning the Kramnik match. I agree with all the points of his proposal and I >agree to participate in a qualifying match for the right to play Kramnik >according to the terms of the ICCA. Below you will find a copy of this open >letter. > >Best regards > Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, author of Shredder > > > > >An Open Letter to Professor Enrique Irazoqui >[ The Cadaques tournament and the Bahrain match ] > >Dear Professor Irazoqui, > [ snipped ] IMHO this 'open' letter is what is known in the trade as a 'spoiler'. When it comes to it in Bahrain the nature and type and selection process for the cyber opponent will be completely irrelevant. The public will not care one jot nor one tittle for complaints about 'fairness' in selection of a chess machine. One chess machine is much the same as any other, and probably completely unfathomable in any case. Fairness to members of the human race is one thing, but nobody gives a monkeys about 'fairness' to a machine, and probably rightly so. One can understand the issue is a big deal to computer chess 'nerds', but please don't imagine the wider world could care less. BGN are putting up the money and the organisation and the idea. Tney really can organise it any way they see fit. Their current mechanism, whilst perhaps unappealing to people here, is probably just as good as any other under the circumstances and short time frame. Changing the whole procedure (and I note the ICCA doesn't offer to actually *do* anything, they've conveniently proposed all work for someone else), the time frame, the relative monies, the whole caboodle; a couple of days before BGN/Irazoqui were about to fire off ........ what else but a "spoiler"?
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