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Subject: Re: ESPN Embraces Chess and Kasparov-X3D Fritz

Author: Louis Fagliano

Date: 07:18:47 08/25/03

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On August 25, 2003 at 08:31:16, Sally Weltrop wrote:

>On August 25, 2003 at 02:10:35, Sietel Monic wrote:
>
>>I hate waiting for these events. I want to see them so much and chessbase talks
>>about them sooo much, I just want to see the match tommorro!!lol
>
>
>I take it with a grain of salt. If it happens L watch it if I can. When it does
>it's not really the truth of the matter anyway. We know it's just publicity
>advancement for CB and the lining of money in the GM's pockets. They don't have
>the gonaids to push the game. They'll take a draw at the drop of a hat.
>
>I say give the GM's NOTHING to play them. This will give their lazy rearends an
>incentive to win as winning is the only way they can get money which is what is
>motivating them from what we see when basically their taking all the money right
>before they've even pushed a pawn!
>
>Play 10 games
>
>money disbursement is as follows:
>
>a win ------------------- $100,000
>a draw ------------------  $25,000
>a loss ------------------  $50,000
>
>
>This works out nicely as to accept lazy, sluggish draws inspires poverty whereas
>if you deliberately lose to make more you get you ego trampled plus not making
>as much as the win. The only way to play is "for the human race" as all these
>hyprocries have been spouting is to go for the gold which is what they should be
>doing regardless but we know that has not been the case from all these "Man vs.
>Machine" matches.

Actually, there is a better way to prevent lazy, sluggish draws.  Just have the
computer operator refuse all draws offers until the position is completely dead,
(i.e., it's a tablebase draw).

Or have Fritz itself be the one who accepts or declines an offer of a draw and
set the draw contempt factor high so that it will play out most any position to
an absolute 0.00 eval.



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