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Subject: Re: To Vincent Diepeveen

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 11:31:09 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 position per second and being the fastest single microprocessor available
>that will be all that it take, according to him.
>
>Pichard.


 I see, and almost twice as good as the current 1900+ XP is of course
 very interesting. Any name yet for this monster? By the way - good luck!

 Sune



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