Author: Larry Proffer
Date: 05:15:31 05/12/01
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On May 12, 2001 at 08:02:05, Mogens Larsen wrote: >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. Which is what I totally fail to understand about SMK and Ossi. Presumably they were on the $400,000 / possible $200,000 as well. So why throw that away, and all the playing publicity, TV, International Press (for which Ed/Christophe appear to be prepared to die for)? Because Kramnik would have the program for three months beforehand? So Shredder loses. Big deal. $200,000 plus 25 zillion tons of free advertising as World Champ. Doesn't compute. 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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