Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 18:59:02 02/17/99
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Ah, how nieve and truly hopefull the unknowing are about the Kamksky fanatics! Gata & Da-da Kamsky were extremely secretive about their scoresheets, even when they were in contractual signings with chess organizer's. They would confiscate their scores and try to make it difficult for tournament helper's to take score of their games. Da-da would even poke inicent people violently in the chest for this 'unpardanable indiscretion', of anyone writing down his son's moves. Before tournaments began (and after concluded too), they would negotiate with interested parties (unfortanately some people will buy anything, if they think they can assign fame to it), in buying their signed score-sheets for hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. I bring this up to point out that it is extremely unlikely that Gata ever played in a tournament like the Harvard cup, which only offered a certain (& by their standards, inadaquet), up front amount to the Grandmasters, and prizes way outside the Kamsky's often excorbitant demands for their productions. And why do tournaments like Harvord cup or Aegon fail? - Because the hard working organizer's and enthusiast finally come to relize that even the prizes they can offer, minus their trivial directing and production fee's, (which the GM's all too often don't take into account, when calculating their own rewards), are nowhere neer enough worth it, to continue putting up with all this kind of crap, for the amount of publicity and continued reward it offers them. A sad & true reality, but that big companies never get interest enough in promoting these event to continue them for more money, often because of the absurd childish behavier of certain chess player's themselves... I suggest that you look at all the games, that are avialable played by strong IM's & GM's from past human-computer tournaments. I don't need any Kamsky, to be enthralled. I get an incredible amount of fun, playing through Rohde & Fedorowicz Human-Computer games, among other's. Also, you can very likely find games played in real time on the ICC, against great programs, even though the human players will often keep their true identity secret, even though the computers are well identified in their finger notes... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On February 17, 1999 at 19:49:19, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >¿Did Gata Kamsky play in tournaments against computers? >I am interested in any published game of GM Kamsky facing computers. >Thanks in advance.
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