Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 11:30:37 12/16/01
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On December 16, 2001 at 14:22:54, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On December 16, 2001 at 14:09:53, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>On December 16, 2001 at 13:45:37, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On December 16, 2001 at 13:12:31, Sune Larsson wrote: >>> >>>>On December 16, 2001 at 13:04:35, Martin Giepmans wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 16, 2001 at 11:23:50, Matthew williams wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>Hi Vincent >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I have noticed during the short time I have been here you like to call people >>>>>>stupid, and you also like to brag, about your chess prowness in beating Chess >>>>>>Computers. I think in one post you said you beat tiger 5 out of Six times, well >>>>>>to me this is pretty amazing since i have not seen even grandmasters do this. >>>>>>Would you care to demonstrate to the CCC public exactly how this is done?? >>>>>>Please don't ask for money, since obviously you play computers at icc for free, >>>>>>if we can take your so-called results at CCC at face value. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>The last word on this is to Vincent of course, but don't forget that >>>>>he is a Fide-master *and* an experienced chessprogrammer. >>>>>If I were a chessprogram (which I'm not, I hope) I would not like to >>>>>play such a guy! Would you? >>>> >>>> >>>> I can't answer for Matthew of course - but if I were a chessprogram I would >>>> rather play guys who played their own chess, instead of facing some learned >>>> anti-computer stuff... The latter would be just boring. >>>> >>>> Sune >>> >>>Thanks for those games Vs IM Berg since now my friend and I who were going to >>>propose a match to Zhu Che decided to wait fo the middle of June when a new >>>single AMD Microprocessor which is on the Lab will be released capable of being >>>almost twice as good as the current 1900+ XP. We are now considering to offer >>>the Ex Champ Anand to face an X Program to be decided later on. >>> >>>Pichard >> >> >> Wow, Anand... - but that would cost you a lot of money for sure?! >> Reaching for the stars - but why really? I think IM Berg or some other >> young, talented coming man would play any program anywhere with any machine >> 6-8 games for, let's say $1000 losing the match, $1500 drawing and >> $3000 winning the match... If you represent a chess program or chess >> company, that would of course mean some risks to you... >> >> Sune > >Mr Fitzgerald wanted his company AMD logo to be represented by a known chess >star. His idea was to be able to make a short TV commercial Representing the AMD >Logo with a Known chess star, but if Anand accept the offer later on even if the >chosen program lose, it will send his message of being able to calculate x amount >of positions per second and being the fastest single microprocessor available, >that will be all that it take, according to him. PS: It almost cost twice that amount to be able to show one minute commercial on the Super Bowl, therefore, according to him even $500,000 would not be too much to spend for the match and another $500,000 to be able to show him playing chess against the best microprocessor on TV. >Pichard.
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