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Subject: Re: Remarkable Friedel Interview about the X3D-match

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 11:49:53 11/03/03

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On November 03, 2003 at 12:09:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 03, 2003 at 09:57:59, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
>
>>http://www.x3dchess.com/news/friedelinterview.htm
>>
>>....
>>
>>Is X3D the sponsor of the match? Are there other sponsors?
>>
>>X3D is the sole sponsor of the Kasparov vs X3D Fritz match. The company is
>>investing a very large sum into it - considerably over a million dollars. And it
>>is planning to stage an "X3D Computer Challenge" like this every year, making it
>>bigger and more attractive each time. There will be a gigantic television and
>>Internet coverage of these events. During the last match the main Internet
>>coverage partner was AOL. This time other major portals will be joining in as
>>partners. There will be many millions of viewers during the live coverage.
>>
>>....
>>
>>Is all of this a big show, or does it have chess value?
>>
>>When the strongest human chess player of all time plays a classical time control
>>match against the strongest chess program in the world it has tremendous chess
>>value.
>>
>>....
>
>I do not see a reason to believe that kasparov is playing against the
>strongest chess program in the world.
>
>Shredder is leading the ssdf list and not Fritz.
>
>
>Uri


Uri, I do agree that Shredder is the leader on the SSDF Rating List by a few
rating points, but Fritz has a better record playing against humans :-)

Jorge



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