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Subject: Re: Next match no appearance Fee for Kasparov, do or die

Author: Jim Bodkins

Date: 09:25:21 11/19/03

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On November 18, 2003 at 21:46:45, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On November 18, 2003 at 21:07:44, Jim Bodkins wrote:
>
>>On November 18, 2003 at 18:50:35, Lois Winters wrote:
>>
>>>then we won't have anymore fixed matches, Uri you have convinced me.
>>
>>You are misstaken, this wasnt a match. It was a product promotion. (Several
>>actually). Purely business. Who should care about such things in anycase.
>>
>>CB created what looked and walked and talked like a duck ... but it wasnt a
>>duck. At least NBA players actually compete while they promote. (Tennis and golf
>>are the same for example). Chess, not so much. So they resort to pure sideshow.
>>
>>... and I have no intention of buying whatever they were selling. (Including
>>GK's book).
>
>So it wasn't a match, just fixed?
>
>Well it is troll night, at CCC...yawn..

Hmmm, I remember you. :( I said what I meant, not what you implied, and without
insults.  It was promotion that involved 4 games of chess. That isnt a match. It
is a promotion that involves 4 games of chess. You see, the NBA actually
sanctions games. Who was it that sanctioned this? ESPN? ... and they are .... ?
Honestly, Utzinger has more authority to sanction a computer chess match.




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