Author: Slater Wold
Date: 20:04:34 02/25/02
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On February 25, 2002 at 21:02:22, Russell Reagan wrote: >On February 25, 2002 at 20:17:59, Jonas Cohonas wrote: > >>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. > >He won 9 tournaments in a row. Fischer had some nice streaks in his day too, >does that mean Fischer isn't slipping? Is Fischer in his prime today because he >was on top of the world 30 years ago? Of course not! What he did years ago has >little to do with his current level of play. Yes, let's compare 30 years with 5 years. Ok. >As you so humbly pointed out, Kasparov was pretty much THE best chess player in >the world, bar none, for over a decade. It is quite evident that he is not heads >and shoulders above the rest of the pack anymore, and if you're missing that >then maybe you should have been keeping up with chess for the last few years. > >>>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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