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Subject: Re: Kasparov offered $700,000 to lose to Deep Junior.

Author: Mike S.

Date: 10:01:31 08/11/02

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On August 11, 2002 at 10:52:50, Omid David wrote:

>FIDE is the only financial sponsor.

FIDE writes on their website, "The prize fund (...) is guaranteed by the World
Chess Foundation." - Whatever that is (?).

http://www.fideonline.com/news.asp?id=50

Kasparovchess.com quotes FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, "in announcing that
FIDE Commerce would underwrite the $1m prize money (...)"

http://www.kasparovchess.com/serve/templates/folders/show.asp?p_docID=22402&p_docLang=EN

My personal opinion is, that this match isn't about money anyway.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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