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Subject: Re: Kasparov 's insight into his match with X3D Fritz

Author: Mig Greengard

Date: 03:33:13 11/21/03

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On November 21, 2003 at 04:00:41, Terry McCracken wrote:

>One other question, how does Kasparov feel about all the rumours that the match
>was fixed?
>
>This must be somewhat of a turnoff for him as he works hard to win, not play out
>some pre-arranged game ot games!
>
>Regards,
> Terry

This is an easy one since we've heard insane theories about every match being
fixed for decades. There are always a few people with nothing to lose to shout
"fixed!". If these geniuses knew anything they would be able to predict the
result instead of later making up theories that conform to the result.

There were various accusations that the Kasparov-Kramnik world championship
match in 2000 was going to be fixed in Garry's favor because he picked Kramnik
as his opponent. Then Kramnik won. Oh, so it's all part of the fix, he'll give
Kasparov a quick rematch for another million. No... Oh well. The lack of
consequences for such frivolous statements make them easy to make, time after
time.

I haven't seen any mention of the Kasparov-X3D Fritz match being pre-arranged
other than the rather desperate comments in message boards from people with zero
information. Someone posting "THE MATCH WAS PRE-ARRANGED!" to a message board
isn't a rumor, it's free speech. I'm sure the creative types here are quite
capable of coming up with a very convincing conspiracy theory for every result
from 3.5-0 to 0.5-3.5.

Since Kasparov doesn't surf message boards I doubt he's heard anything of the
sort, so the question wouldn't make any sense to him. As for me, I'd like one of
these theorists to explain how pre-arranging the games would provide any benefit
over playing them. And a benefit that could possibly tempt them to risk the
disaster that would occur if such fixing were exposed. Nothing I can see to
gain, everything to lose.




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