Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 18:54:45 11/10/04
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On November 10, 2004 at 13:26:39, odell jones wrote: >Is there any chance that all that Aegon will return or tournaments similiar? >Also any predictions on how the computers would perform against the humans >today. I assume the Computers would win overwhelmingly. In 1997, the Dutch computer chess magazine 'Computerschaak', reported that the sponsor AEGON provided the following reasons for ending the sponsorship" 1) The tournament got too big; i.e., became more expensive to support. 2) The computers won last year so why continue; 3) Publicity was mainly pointed to the chess community; i.e., and not back to AEGON who were footing the bill. That was also right after Kasparov lost to DB , which sort of busted the golden egg for future matches Computer vs Mankind matches. As long as Kasparov kept winning, it it my opinion that the IBM matches would have continued and perhaps AEGON as well. Computers won AEGON in '97, they would clearly win today against like caliber. (combination of GM,IM & Masters) For a 24 GM vs 24 Computers match today - you better make sure your GMs are from the elite top 100 , or in my estimate they might lose. If you could get the top 10 GMs vs the top 10 Computers , that would attract I believe a lot of interest and perhaps be worth sponsoring. IMO, the top 10 GMs would win such a battle - but it would not be easy.
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