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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:44:23 04/19/03

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On April 19, 2003 at 10:30:08, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On April 19, 2003 at 10:11:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On April 19, 2003 at 07:57:46, enrico carrisco wrote:
>>
>>>On April 19, 2003 at 07:27:06, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>
>>>>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
>>>
>>>You wouldn't have to worry about Kasparov and Kramnik accepting with match
>>>guidelines such as these.  Look in the triple digits of the FIDE rankings for
>>>GMs that would participate with such a venue.
>>>
>>>-elc.
>>
>>We do not need kasparov and kramnik to participate.
>>They failed to win so it is time for new players.
>>
>>sponsors should simply say them no.
>>
>>Jorge Pichard also did not susggest how much money to give the humans and only
>>suggested giving them 1/3 for losing 1/2 for drawing
>>
>>He did not say 1/3 and 1/2 of what and he only criticized the ratio between
>>the money for participating and the money for winning because you can see money
>>for losing also as money for participating.
>>
>>The situation with kasparov was that he got 750,000$ for drawing and could get
>>700,000$ for losing or 800,000 for winning.
>>
>>In other words you can see it as 700,000$ for losing 750,000$ for drawing and
>>800,000$ for winning.
>>
>>Jorge suggest something like
>>333,333$ for losing,500,000$ for drawing and 1,000,000$ for winning.
>>
>>Uri
>
>what i tink even more interresting is a match with 4 very strong humans and 4
>strong comps, where humans play only comps as in the old aegon tournament, the
>humans will get 400,000$ for the 1st, 300,000$, 200,000$ and 100,000$ for the
>next seats.
>
>let's say Kasparov, Kramnik, Leko and Anand againt Shredder, Chesstiger, Fritz
>and Junior :)

I agree that it may be more interesting and the human who finish last should
participate in a qualification next time in case that he wants to play against
computers again.

Uri



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