Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:55:23 07/16/03
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On July 17, 2003 at 00:14:26, Luis Smith wrote: >>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. I do not know about other people but I am not interested in a match with a player who proved in the last game of the previous match that he does not want to win the match. Uri
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