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Subject: Re: My Fritz 9 prediction (More Hype)

Author: Vikrant Malvankar

Date: 21:02:03 07/25/05

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By the way Anand is in India currently and he stated recently in an Press
interview that he is very much eager to play a computer.


On July 25, 2005 at 11:46:27, Joachim Rang wrote:

>On July 25, 2005 at 10:59:48, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>As to your question, they won't ask Anand as he most likely will win at long
>>time controls and he's expensive! At least the Hydra team most likely won't
>>arrange a match with Anand.
>>
>>ChessBase, who knows? Maybe they will maybe they won't. Does Anand care, I don't
>>know, as he considered the match(es) of Kramnik and Kasparov as trivial, ie not
>>to be taken seriously.
>>
>>Terry
>
>I got different informations. Anand does not like to play against computers and
>said during the machtes with Kasparov and Kramnik that he would not like to
>change  with Kramnik and Kasparov who faced as he said very tough opponents. I
>think Anand does not want to play since he knows he will probably loose. For one
>million I think he would play but I'm not sure whether Pal-Group will invest so
>much money.
>
>By the way Anand would loose against Hydra as every human being on this planet
>without computer assistance.
>
>But a match against Fritz, Shredder or Junior could be interesting given they
>ran on not too fast hardware.
>
>regards Joachim



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