Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:42:40 09/15/01
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On September 14, 2001 at 11:46:45, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:
He you're not exactly smart!
a) Bahrain is thousands of kilometers away from Afghanistan
and the only thing that helps against suicidal radical taleban members
is an h-bomb anyway, because conventional fighting in 4
to 7 kilometers high mountains is asking for hundreds of
thousands of allied deaths and for sure that's not a price
which i would be wanting to pay, and as i'm daily confronted with
muslim cultural problems here in this town (10% of inhabitants here
are partly radical muslims who have nothing to do here, after the
bombing of WTC some of their kids went on the street celebrating the
bombing, which of course has fallen very bad as the other 90% here
is christian, and lucky guns are forbidden here otherwise we would have
had already some mass executions)
c) none of the participants in this match is from American origin,
at most the processor chips design can be from american origin.
promotion is completely british and Kramnik is Russian which is most
important.
d) the sponsor is bahrain itself, so if you go somewhere else that would
be pretty stupid as there is no prize fund then.
e) Braingames isn't going to reply to something they can't earn money
with anyway.
f) braingames doesn't care where the money comes from, they're there
to earn money and even if a 30 year relationship needs to get broken
to do so, they might consider that!
g) i would love to see fritz killed. Not that i like the publicity for
chessbase, but to show the world that there is still an open struggle
between top GMs and computers, whereas general opinion is that computers
are better than mankind in the game of chess (which is of course a
first goal to get computers that can safely drive a car for example).
h) i doubt whether commercially seen it is smart OBJECTIVELY seen
to delay a match after the publicity braingames tried to raise,
when there is a war in Bahrain itself around octobre it's time to
ask this question again.
i) when there is a war going on elsewhere in the middle-east/asia then
obviously Bahrain has extra reasons to let the match continue properly
because any publicity for them is welcome then and a million dollar
isn't that much considering kramnik is going to win, which is of course
completely against the speculations of 99.99% of mankind. In that
horrible scenario that there is a war elsewhere going on, then
1 million dollar then is a peanut for world wide publicity.
>Dear Sirs,
>
>As an avid supporter of computer chess and looking forward to the upcoming event
>in Bahrein, I wonder, if in regard to recent political developments the match
>will be postponed or transferred to another location.
>
>I think it is safe to assume that the USA will start invading Afghanistan soon
>and the political or even military implications on arabic states such as Bahrein
>are imminent, too.
>
>There is much interest in the computer chess world if there is any alterations
>being made to the match schedule.
>
>Can you issue a statement about this please?
>
>Regards from Germany,
>Andreas Schwartmann
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