Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 19:05:21 03/07/04
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Let's be clear once and for all. Linares has realistic tournament direction. And none of them carries the name Uri. So they will realize that when they enter computers the GM's will increase their price a lot to get there. Each year with each GM you have a seperated negotiation trajectory to invite him, offer him money. In general GM's double their price at least when asked. Also some Top GM's usually come for cheap price after a bunch of years. Now you enter computers, they want double price money. And a year later they won't come at all being insulted by dumb and stupid computer operators type Uri Blass, who are telling them they should resign just because the machine shows +3.0 in a dead drawn opposite bishop endgame. So the linares tournament direction will realize 2 things a) their current tournament will get more expensive b) they risk losing kasparov joining linares, as kasparov never plays for under 1 million a computer (this is a quote from kasparov a few years ago, please do not confuse it with price money. price money is not the same like the money you pay to get him playing a match or an event) c) next year insulted GM's won't come cheap back or do not want to come at all. Some GM's will this year only show up if they know computers are there, they show up only because there is more price money and even though they do not like to have that price money, they play the computer then just because their colleges need the money badly for whatever reason. The tournament direction will realize this just all too well. Also a lot of players will simply say they do not have time to play this time in Linares, without giving a reason. But everyone feels why they thanked. The reasons they give are valid. Some will give reason they are never busy objectively but just busy fighting an opponent X who has feelings and from whom they have made extensive studies how he reacts at opening Y. Computer they do not know other than that they have chessbase + fritz 5.32 (they got that for free one day). They all fear the preparements from Khalifman. A few years ago Khalifman impressed all the GM's winning that FIDE knockout tournament. An important reason for that, as given by khalifman is that he has a fast dual computer which he uses to analyze and prepare with his games. This dual unimaginable fast computer, bought around 1999 will for sure kick their butt when outpreparing. They already fear Khalifman using that monster machine (dual PII-450Mhz), not to mention what disasters will happen when the computer freaks show up. One of them will remember the others how a friend of him qualified for the FIDE 2001 world championship using some super diep computer (also dual like the Khalifman computer). And so the gossiping will go on. They will conclude they must at least double their normal fee. That is very dissappointing for the organisation who had managed to get down the fees last years, because they all wanted to join linares as it is the only tournament where Kasparov plays different GM's too. So for some GM's who complain a lot that they hardly get a chance to play Kasparov & co, linares is their only chance to beat him, if they are so lucky to get in. Now they must play cheap and also beat a computer or 2? No way! The organisation will realize all this and ask most likely a huge fee for 2 computerprograms there. On March 07, 2004 at 21:37:14, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 07, 2004 at 21:24:30, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On March 07, 2004 at 19:39:07, Mike S. wrote: >> >>>On March 07, 2004 at 14:33:07, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>>On March 07, 2004 at 08:57:22, Mike S. wrote: >>>> >>>>Don't talk the same crap. >>> >>>You don't understand arguments do you? :-)) But that doesn't bother me... you're >>>not the only reader here. >> >>Arguments do not work for top GM's. >> >>They need money to play chessprograms. >> >>About $250k i would estimate it at to join Linares top group for 2 programs. > >There is a cheaper solution. >Decide that grandmasters who refuse to play against programs in linares will not >play there. > >Decide that the prizes for humans will be the same as the prizes today but every >GM will play 2 more games against programs. > >If GM's do not like it then you will invite the highest rated players in the >world that are not invited instead of them. > >Uri
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