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Subject: Re: Kasparov [HBR interview] : 'IBM committed a crime against science.'

Author: Pallav Nawani

Date: 11:17:04 04/26/05

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On April 26, 2005 at 11:10:03, Steven Edwards wrote:

>On April 26, 2005 at 10:33:01, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote:
>
>>                   Harvard Business Review, April 2005
>>
>>For a start, they were a huge promotion for the game. Nothing made chess more
>>popular than the match I won against Deep Blue in 1996 and the match I lost in
>>1997. The official Web site got 72 million hits during the six games of the
>>second match in New York, which was a higher daily rate than the Atlanta Olympic
>>Games Web site got in 1996.
>
>Wrong.  The Fischer era starting around 1970 had a far, far deeper impact on
>chess popularity.  See the USCF annual membership numbers for proof.
>

Wrong. Fisher era had deep impact on chess popularity in US. FYI, US != World.


Pallav



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