Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:02:27 04/22/01
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On April 21, 2001 at 22:16:53, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On April 21, 2001 at 10:50:39, Albert Silver wrote:
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>>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. :-)
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>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.
You're right of course, I hadn't considered that. Still, when IBM was organizing
its match against Kasparov, it was putting up money for its own event. How much
would they cede to an event controlled by someone else? I think that money AND
control would necessarily go hand in hand, and as I don't think that would
happen.... This, presuming IBM were even the slightest bit disposed to toss DB
into the fray.
Albert
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>> Albert
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