Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:33:01 11/21/03
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On November 21, 2003 at 08:23:27, Mig Greengard wrote: >On November 21, 2003 at 08:04:46, Rex wrote: > >>Mig, >> >>As human ver computers are an interesting match to watch, there needs to be the >>"next step" of matches to occur. Would Gary be interested playing among a group >>of people all in the top 5 or 10 in the world plus included in this tournement >>the top 3 to 5 top Chess Programs. So we would have the TOP 4 GM's or so, VER >>the TOP 4 Computer Chess Programs all in a Tournement. >> >>This would surely get some exiting play and sponcers. >> > >It's very hard to find a sponsor for #1 vs #1 with lower overall costs much more >publicity per dollar. Larger fields and longer events sound good to chess fans >but rarely much sense to sponsors. You need a larger space for more time and you >have to pay ten or twenty people instead of one or two. All that extra cost with >no tangible advantage from a publicity standpoint to the general public. I'm >sure there would be a few additional angles to play up, but none that would >compensate for all the downside. > >The sad reality is that there aren't enough serious chess fans to make it worth >holding an event that expensive for us. You're talking a budget of between five >and eight million dollars. I think that it can be cheaper and if the best players are too greedy we can get only 2600-2700 players that are strong enough. The sponsor can decide that there is total of 180,000$ for prizes for humans. 100,000$ for the best human 50,000$ for second place 30,000$ for third place No prize for 4th place. Humans play games against 4 computers with white and black so we have 8 games per player. The humans who play are the best players who agree to play in these conditions. I think that it may be more interesting then another match against kasparov or kramnik. Uri
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