Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 14:25:27 08/09/98
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On August 09, 1998 at 15:00:03, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >Why is it that one side gets prizes and not the other? > > Hi Tom: I am not sure If I must or not answer your question, maybe even you are kidding, but just in case your or other guy seriuosly think in it, let me explain: a) bruce does not need a prize to do this: I believe it is enough good for him the chance to play a GM. If I am mistaken, Bruce has the word... b) Bruce does not need to perform an special effort, just to push the buttons to enter the moves. If I am mistaken... c) The prize for Ivan is more a kind of simbol than a real one. It's just to give him a kind of little incentive in order he feel this is a serious thing. For that, just a bit of money is enough. Probably the same sychological mechanism is behind the people that expend 1000 bucks going to a tournament and are very worried about 150 in prizes. d) finally, my budget for chess prizes, chess programs, chess boards, chess etc, is exhausted, sorry. e) of course we are ready to accept contributions fernando -Tom > >On August 09, 1998 at 12:17:56, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi all: >>Until now -sunday evening,16:15 - I have not been telephoned by Ivan Morovic, >>but I hope he will do it tomorrow morning to confirm tha beginning of the match >>for tomorrow around 20:00 time of New York, more or less. Match will be >>performed in ICC under Morovic account, 40 moves in 2 hours, with a little prize >>-only for Ivan, sorry Bruce :-) -for each point he get. I will post the score >>after the game to ensure all of you will have it if you did not contact ICC to >>see it directly or you just don't have an account there. Else: I will take >>profit of my frienship with Ivan and his engagement in this show to ask him some >>exhibition games at a faster pace with other top programs. Until now Christophe >>Theron is ready to lend me the last version of Tiger to do so and any other >>programmer willing to follow suite should contact me. This time, howewer, I >>think in doing it NOT throught ICC but in my computer, 200 Mhz, in order to see >>what a top program can do in this, normal, almost obsolescent setting. I already >>have all programs -well, almost all- but as much as this will public, I would >>like the permission of msrs Ban, Schroeder, Wittington, Morsch etc to do so. I >>suppose I don't need that, BUT I don want to be mauled in a way or another if >>Ivan cut them in pieces, in public. >>fernando
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