Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:46:41 08/09/02
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On August 09, 2002 at 16:37:39, Roy Eassa wrote: >They are offering to give Kasparov $700,000 to show up and lose. He's only >human and that's an awful big temptation. Why would he work a thousand times as >hard for an extra 14%? > >Just show up, play casually and without concentrating very hard, and you're >$700,000 richer. > >I've never heard of a match in any sport in which somebody gets only 14% more >money for winning versus losing. > >Why not cut the loser's share dramatically and make it interesting? You get an extra 100K to win. Maybe we could do like the Mayans and the losers are beheaded. I think he will try hard. It will be highly public and a chance for him to show people "that computers are not smarter than he is" -- from a perception point of view. He has a boatload of money in the bank, I would think. I doubt if an extra million dollars would add much motivation beyond what is already there.
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