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Subject: Re: GK's "last stand for humanity"

Author: Luis Smith

Date: 21:14:26 07/16/03

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>Smirin beated Junior,Shredder,Hiarcs,Tiger 5-3
>I think that it is better to give the challange to smirin.
>
>Playing with kasparov is a bad lesson for the top chess players.
>They learn that they can draw a match and still get another match when a player
>who won does not get another match so they have no motivation to win if money is
>important for them.
>
>I think that the prize for winning should be not only money but priority to get
>another match when in case of drawing or losing the first priority should be
>to the best human who did not play against machines.
>If chesbase does not decide not to prefer kasparov for another match in case
>that he does not win then people are going to suspect that the human did not win
>the match on purpose and it is only a show event.
>
>I see that kasparov is prefered for another match after the draw against Junior
>and I think that it is a very bad choice of chessbase.
>I guess that not a lot of people are going to be interested to see kasparov
>against Fritz after the last draw against Junior.
>I expect more people to be interested to see Smirin against Fritz.

I doubt that, I think that most of the spectators are some-what younger crowd
watching from the net, and when the name Smirin is brought up they think "who?".

I believe people are more interested in seeing Kasparov play the computers,
simply because he is Kasparov.  #1 rated human player in the world.

>
>Uri



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