Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 02:50:48 07/26/05
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On July 26, 2005 at 05:14:29, Steve Glanzfeld wrote: >On July 26, 2005 at 03:56:58, Joachim Rang wrote: > >>On July 26, 2005 at 00:02:03, Vikrant Malvankar wrote: >> >>>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. >> >>Hey, that are good news! I hope we will see a match soon, but I'm afraid if it >>is against Hydra Anand will loose too. > >When the Hydra team is afraid to participate in a computerchess world >championship, they must be afraid of Anand too. They won't play against him. > >And btw., when the ICGA wouldn't roll out the red carpet for Hydra in Reykjavik, >that is for sure NOT the reason why they do not participate. Because his >highness the sheik could provide them with optimal conditions anytime. Five or >six star hotels or whatever. When they don't go there, it is because they think >it's too risky. The same goes for Anand. After a match against Anand, the Hydra >hardware will be busy with fingerprint comparison and weather forecast :) > >Steve I partly agree and partly disagree: I don't think the Hydrateam is afraid to play the WCCC but they have indeed nothing to gain. If they win (which is likely) the media wouldn't notice and the computerchess-enthusiasts would say: what an unfair match 32 proc against 4. If they don't win (which is unlikely but not impossible) all would laugh about the "mighty Hydra" (Chrilly has his own personal reasons not to participate). I don't think the Hydrateam is afraid of loosing against Anand. But you might be right that after such a match there is no more interest in Hydra, since when you beated he strongest player convincingly what else can you prove? So I think they will first play against another Top10-GM but not Topalov or Hydra and only when they have crushed him too play the last match against Anand or Topalov. After that no more (human) challenges are left. regards Joachim
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