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Subject: Re: Kramnik allow Fritz to win: Marketing justification

Author: Sally Weltrop

Date: 23:27:41 10/15/02

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On October 16, 2002 at 00:08:17, Ricardo R Santana wrote:

>Ok. It's not that complicate to understand Kramnik could beat Deep Fritz easily
>. Just see the first 2 games...But what happens then ? Kramnik lost two games..a
>great blunder and now this ?? I am sure soon or later we will see in Deep Fritz
>box: the program who beats world champion bla bla bla. It's disgusting...
>
>All you have to understand is something like this: Deep Fritz is weak and this
>we can see in the games where Kramnik played an inferior ending to win the
>game....and second: Kramnik now is richer !!!!

I TOTALLY agree. It's just marketing PR. If it was winner gets 75% of prize fund
you would see much different results. The GK-Junior match will be much more
interesting as GK has a point to prove and he has to crush Junior as if he does
not he will have to hang his head in shame a second time!



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