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Subject: Re: Open letter from the ICCA

Author: Mike S.

Date: 14:28:19 04/22/01

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On April 22, 2001 at 17:08:37, Martin Schubert wrote:

>>Kramnik *has won* a match against *Kasparov*.

>Right, he has won one match. After loosing one match against Shirov, so that
>Shirov should have played.
>By the way: is it a world championchip just because to of the best players of
>the world played one match? If that's true and I find enough money I can play a
>match between Kasparow and Anand, Kasparov and Shirov, Shirov and Anand,... and
>can call this world championchip? I think we have one organisation which playes
>a championchip, so Anand is the world champion.

Kramnik *has won* a match against *Kasparov*.

>>Deep Shredder *has not won* (nor played) a match against *Deep Blue*.

>Why Shredder-Deep Blue?

Because Deep Blue is the level to compare at, for Man vs. Machine events of this
kind and dimension IMO.

Regards,
M.Scheidl

>>I think BGN is of course aware of that they need to meet decisions, which can be
>>seriously argued in front of a worldwide audience. 9 rounds swiss is a weak
>>argument, when various strong programs, different test, match and tournament
>>results are around to be taken into consideration, and: none of the current
>>leading programs has proven yet to be in the same league as Deep Blue was.
>>Therefore, a qualifying was BGN's logical conclusion IMO.
>>
>>The event planned by Brain Games has a totally different dimension in terms of
>>hardware, publicity, influence on public opinion about chess and computer chess
>>etc. than an ICCA Championship. So if some think an ICCA title is the one and
>>only argument which counts, they just don't realise this dimension (and even the
>>ICCA realises it somehow as it seems).



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