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Subject: Re: DeepBlue will play simultaneous vs Anand, Kramnik and Kasparov

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 00:33:00 04/01/03

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On April 01, 2003 at 03:27:23, Matthias Hartwich wrote:

>On April 01, 2003 at 03:25:12, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>Very nice!
>
>It is the "First of April"-Joke for me today. :-)
>
>Matthias

So you didn't look at the ChessBase site then. ;-)
Was it so obvious? ;-)
And isn't it called "April's fool" or so? Am not sure...

>>Sensation!
>>Based on a private secret email I can tell that DeepBlue gets re-animated again
>>for a millennium battle vs. Anand, Kramnik and Kasparov. DB will play
>>simultaneously against the three in November. DB will play 6 rounds in
>>tournament-like time control g/180. No re-match option. The winner of this
>>battle will be called "All-time Hero". Price fund is 1,000,000 ZKT for each
>>player in case of win, nothing for draw or loss. Sponsors want to stay secret
>>until the match will officially be announced.
>>Let's hope the best that the humans win the title back. :-)



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