Author: Jeff Anderson
Date: 07:57:23 08/06/98
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On August 06, 1998 at 10:07:07, Komputer Korner wrote: >How many live chess matches have you been to? You could take the attendance >receipts from all the top OTB human chess tournaments around the world each year >and you might have enough for the rental of a large sized hall. Maybe this is an >exaggeration but not by much. Kasparov-Deep Blue matche excepted. There are so >few spectators at most chess tournaments that almost all of them never charge >admittance. You can't capture the emotion if you don't go. And of course videos >of chess don't exactly make the evening news. >-- >Komputer Korner And who do you know that is going to pay $11 a magazine that would account the 'dramatic' last round of Linares........between a couple of computers. It's not going to happen. This is becuase the himan touch to chess brings drama, emotion, and competition. Computer chess does none of this! Without people chess is nothing. Jeff
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