Author: José Carlos
Date: 18:10:10 08/09/02
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On August 09, 2002 at 20:26:51, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 09, 2002 at 17:28:19, José Carlos wrote: > >>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? >> >> I agree with you. >> This sounds to me like motivating Kasparov not to try hard for a win, which is >>a bad way to get a good result (for the program team). >> I'd rather give money for each win, maybe 33% of it for each draw and zero for >>losing, which would allow us to see what Kasparov can achieve against the >>computer. >> With the conditions you mention, I think Kasparov will go for a minimum win. > >Imagine you are Kasparov. You have been publicly humiliated in front of 2.5 >billion people or so in 1997 -- in the highest profile chess match of all time >and billed as man verses machine. In the press conferences that followed, >volcanic rage is the best and most fitting description of the resulting >attitude. Seething in anger for 5 years at your 'silicon humuliation', someone >offers you $700,000 to prepare for a match and an additional $100,000 if you >win. If you win, it may look like 'man really was better than machine' after >all [to the common 'Joe on the street']. If you lose, this time, people may >point out: 'It was only a little tiny desk machine this time.' > >Do you really (honestly) believe he might possibly sandbag it? I simply cannot >imagine that. Now, I can imagine if he starts off 3-0, he might draw/draw/draw >just to get a quick pocketful and a win. But he will try for all he is worth. >I also believe he will prepare harder and better than he ever has for any match. > And now, people know ways to beat computers better than throwing goofy openings >at them. There is a lot more data available as to what works. I have no idea what he's gonna do. I think no one has. But the offer of 700k and 100k more for winning the match sounds like saying "you don't _need_ to make a big effort because you have a lot of money even for losing, and a small percent more if you win". What does it mean? It means saying "I pay you a lot for _not_ crashing the program". That's why I expect a minimum win of Kasparov. If they want Kasparov to figth every game and kill the program by 6-0, then offer money only for won games. I repeat, I don't know if Kasparov will get influenced by this, but this is what "seems" to be implied by the offer. José C.
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