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

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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