Author: Chris Kantack
Date: 11:01:54 10/19/02
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On October 19, 2002 at 04:51:34, Richard Bean wrote: >I hate to say this as a human, but I think the stress is going to be too much >for Kramnik. $600,000 for losing, $800,000 for drawing, $1,000,000 for winning. > Kasparov was more experienced than Kramnik in these kind of must-win situations >(remember the Seville match versus Karpov) and even he couldn't handle the >pressure in the same situation. It comes from playing an opponent which doesn't >feel stressed at all. Kramnik gets $700,000 for losing, $800,000 for a draw, 1 million for the win. Apparently Kramnik felt $800,000 was enough. Chris http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm
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