Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 17:17:59 02/25/02
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On February 25, 2002 at 14:16:51, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 25, 2002 at 12:44:41, Otello Gnaramori wrote: > >>On February 25, 2002 at 10:35:00, Slater Wold wrote: >> >>> >>>Basically he told me he only bought the rights to rematch Kaspy (who refused). >> >>He could gain another million dollar or something about that for a rematch, why >>is he so reluctant...I can't understand frankly (could he be afraid of D.B. ?). >> >>Otello. > >There are probably several factors going into his decision not to play. > >1. He's rich as it is. He's not going to drool over another $1 million like the >rest of us. > >2. He's not as good as he used to be. He's still among the top players in the >world, but as we have seen from even the recent Linares tournament, he plays >sub-optimal moves occasionally. In the Linares case, he got a draw when he >should have gotten a win, which isn't THAT bad, but I have a feeling that a >computer at the level of a third Deep Blue computer would smash him for any >mistake. Not as good as he used to be??!! LOL you are talking about the guy that won 9 super GM tournaments in a row! He drew 2 games in Linares, does that say that he is out of form? let's wait until the tournament is over before making any conclusions. >So he doesn't really have any motivation or reason to play another computer >match. They're offering money, he has money...and why should he risk another >embarrasing loss? There's really no good reason he has for playing. Well motivation or the lack of it might be the keyword here, but not because he is affraid to lose IMO. Jonas
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