Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:00:28 04/03/02
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On April 03, 2002 at 08:47:30, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On April 03, 2002 at 05:24:37, Vine Smith wrote: > >>Amusingly, the pictures of the software packages at the top of the announcement >>still include Fritz, instead of Tiger. I suppose Chessbase wanted to give >>another member of its lineup a shot, but why not just add two more games to the >>match? And why is this truncated time control of game/60 plus 10 second >>increments being retained? Well, it will still be interesting, just not quite as >>indicative as it could have been. > >Retaining the timecontrol does provide some sort of comparison with Gulko's >performance albeit the program lineup has changed slightly. The limited starting >fee and result oriented bonus system probably doesn't encourage a GM to play for >several hours. > >There could have been a few extra game given the space in the schedule. But >Smirin may have other commitments. > >Regards, >Mogens I think that it may be interesting if chessbase suggests a match like it as an open challange for everyone with the only difference that players with rating of less than 2700 will have to pay 2500$ for the right to play when they can get 500$ for every draw and 1500$ for every win. It will be interesting to see if there is someone who is going to pay the 2500$ Uri
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