Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 01:25:53 09/29/03
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On September 29, 2003 at 03:56:38, Gerd Isenberg wrote: the announcement of official worldchampionship has already been made to the press, so we can discuss forever but the damage has been done already. >On September 28, 2003 at 12:50:51, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On September 28, 2003 at 12:31:30, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>On September 28, 2003 at 12:00:05, Uri Blass wrote: >>> >>>>>Very nice to be finally able to get someone to sponsor a computer >>>>>and then have to explain why Fritz is playing Kasparov for the World >>>>>Championship title a week ealier. >>>> >>>>Fritz is not playing kasparov for the world championship. >>>> >>>>The ICGA has no right to decide that Fritz is playing for the world >championship when Fritz is not the world champion and the same for chessbase. >>>> >>>>It is only another human-machine match like matches of hiarcs or Rebel against >>>>humans. >>> >>>It's an offcial ICGA world championship. >>> >>>Directly from their website: >>> >>>'First Official World Chess Championship' >>> >>>It doesn't matter what you think, thats what they named it, and >>>that's what is printed everywhere. >> >>I can also organize official uri world championship when the opponents are movei >>and me. >> >>I see no reason that the public will care about it. >> >>> >>>Nobody cares about anyone winning some silly computerchess tournament >>>the next week. >> >>Why should people care about silly names that the ICGA decided to use? >> >>I expect every unbiased newspaper not to use the words "world championship" if >>they choose to report about the match between kasparov and Fritz. >> >>Uri > >not so sure. > >'First Official World Chess Championship' ... in "virtual reality" ;-) > >http://www.x3dworld.com/about/news/standardpr/x3dfritz.html >http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/icga/ > >"The match has been sanctioned by the International Computer Games Association >(ICGA) and the United States Chess Federation (USCF) as the First Official World >Chess Championship Man vs Machine in total virtual reality." > >Seems that even Chessbase feels uncomfortable with this artificial title >anymore, only "The Kasparov-X3D Fritz match". > >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1142 >but >http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1119 > >Gerd
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