Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 05:02:05 05/12/01
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On May 12, 2001 at 07:25:50, Larry Proffer wrote: >But Chessbase have very generously pledged the money (if they win) of four >hundred thousand US dollars to a young players fund - or so it says on their >website. Someone might claim that winning is so unlikely that it's a free pledge. >So that's $400,000 for the program if it wins, and $600,000 for Kramnik who >would correspondlingly lose. > >However, if Kramnik wins, he gets $800,000; and since I read somewhere the total >prize money is $1,000,000, would it be reasonable to assume therefore, that if >the program loses, it gets $200,000 ? > >Does anyone know if this is true? $400,000 for a win, $200,000 for a draw or >loss? That sounds like a likely scenario, but I haven't seen it on print anywhere. OTOH who would the third party be? I doubt BGN gets a cut in case of a computer loss. >Also, if true, is Chessbase generously pledging the $200,000 to the "young >players fund" (if they lose)? Unknown. Maybe that amount of cash is deemed insufficient for a fund, but not a bank account ;-). >It seems to me that Chessbase are an honourable and reasonable company; so your >statement that "they wanted all the money" can't be true if "they" is Chessbase. That is my impression as well. Doing anything else than promised would surely be somewhat risky given the publicity. Of course there are still numerous conspiracy theories available concerning various cashflow options. I haven't see any proof so far that substantiates such claims. >Otherwise why give it all away so generously if they win? They do get a lot of virtually free publicity that would equal a generous amount of cash if they had to do it themselves by advertizing. They wouldn't be able to accomplish the same with $400,000 IMO. But what do I know about advertizing. Regards, Mogens
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