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Subject: Re: The appearance fee is a ridiculous bonus prize

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 04:27:06 04/19/03

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On April 19, 2003 at 04:58:33, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 19, 2003 at 04:16:36, Eran wrote:
>
>>Apparently Shredder 7.04 plays stronger than Fritz 8008 does. So I wonder
>>whether there will be next match of 6 or 8 games Shredder 7.04 vs Kramnik or
>>Kasparov. I hope to pass my word to any group who may sponsor it.
>>
>>Eran
>
>I hope not to see a match against these guys.
>
>They had an opportunities to win against Fritz and Junior and failed.
>They do not deserve a prize for failing to winning Junior or Fritz.
>
>If humans who fail to win will be replaced then there is a bigger chance that we
>are not going to see humans lose on purpose.
>
>There are people who claim that average GM's can get draw against computers if
>they want to do it.
>Both Kramnik and Kasparov failed to do it inspite of the fact that they were
>leading the match but people claims that these were show events and they did not
>take the games seriously.
>
>I think that one of the conditions for the match should be that the humans who
>play against programs will not be allowed to play for money against computers
>in the next 3 years if they do not win the match.
>
>Uri


My suggestion is that the sponsor should not give any appearance fee and should
only pay 33% of the prize if the human fail to win the match and only 50% of the
prize if the human draw the match.

Jorge



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