Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 01:39:22 11/21/03
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On November 20, 2003 at 23:23:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snips] >How about doing a couple of things: > >(1) tell the entire story. The whole story is on: http://www.rebel.nl/match.htm >(a) one game doesn't mean _anything_. (b) Ed >played multiple games with crafty and rebel having a _very_ long time for >each move. >Crafty won. Crafy lost, see the above link. >Does that prove anything? Nope, other than the >one handicap game was meaningless. >(2) I'll be _happy_ to take you on at 100:1 time odds, anything you think >you are ready. I'll even put up a wager to make it interesting. I am >talking about a match of at least 10 games. Interested? You'd be >stupid if you were. Because I wouldn't play _any_ program at that time >handicap, including the original Sargon... I would take the bet against the Crafty of that time, which was the point. >>>But that's not good for business, ist it? It looks to me that the status quo >>>favors your interests. >>> >> >>So it's the money motive working here ? This would be an object lesson on how to >>bring industry giants and ivy-league colleges to their knees: make them travel, >>or make them get a $50,000 sponsor. >> >>Amir >It is _several_ things. The biggest is that we have an organization >that was formed with the sole purpose of fostering interest in computer >chess "around the world". It is no longer living up to that charter. >It is now fostering computer chess interest in Europe, mainly. Which >is fine. I've already re-named it to the ECCI or ECGA, which is much >more descriptive... > >It is easily possible to get a company to provide hardware, and some >publicity money, and even some prize money. But not a big chunk of >change that goes into a black hole called the JICGA, which won't >benefit the donor whatsoever... > >If you tax someone too much, they move away. You don't know about the failed negotiations tries of the ICGA in the US, nobody knows. My best, Ed
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