Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:53:28 08/09/02
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On August 09, 2002 at 16:37:39, Roy Eassa wrote: Exactly that's always the problem human-computer and always will be, because the engine programmers must do usually insane effort to organize it. Look we talk about university in israel sponsoring it now together with FIDE. That means probably that fide ships an arbiter after endless talks from David Levy (good job btw!). In short we can imagine that the junior team themselves must have done unimaginable efforts to convince university jeruzalem, for which we congratulate them! Kasparov never worked against computers and never needed to either. the only game he probably regrets playing another random line against the computer was game 6 in 1997. Our only hope is that he hates being #2 of the world now behind kramnik and that he wants to show by playing a few good games from *his* side against junior that he can beat anything on this planet except Kramnik :) So unless Kasparov is that mule who needs according to a dutch saying to hit its head 3 times before understanding it's not smart to hit with your head, he sure will do effort here to not lose the match! I feel kasparov WILL do his best this time. In fact we will see it already within 2 games. If kasparov plays his favourite openings lines the first 2 games we sure know he'll do effort to win. If he plays something like 1.d4 and then 2.nf3 or 2.c3 or some other random opening like 1.g3 or 1.d3 or 1.b3 and some f4 stuff where kasparov has proven to know less from than the average FM, then we know he's not giving everything but of course we first watch the result before doing a final conclusion :) For me after 1.e4 kasparov has INVENTED najdorf as being a successful opening and unless we see do not see him play that nor scheveningen where kasparov knows a lot from too, we can be sure that he'll do a lot of effort to win. Anyway $100k for such a big match (from potential PR viewpoint), you can earn more by betting on yourself for a bit more than $100k. I'm NOT accusing kasparov from doing that in 1997 btw. I would not officially dare :) In 1997 the diff was also like $100k or so. >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?
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