Author: Adnan
Date: 16:52:48 04/07/99
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On April 07, 1999 at 19:00:06, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: >Sorry - I don't know. However, I can't help wondering if the champion really has >$6,000,000 spare if he were proved wrong. If the challenge is really to be taken >seriously, it would seem like a very interesting thing to tackle. For that kind >of money it would be possible to put together a very powerful team of >programmers and top flight players, and even perhaps to develop special purpose >hardware as IBM did in order to beat Kasparov. While browsing through the book, it appeared that he made a lot of money playing Bridge. Apparently, Bridge players make more money than Chess players. In his chapter that I looked, he was sort of making fun of people who sent letters to his challenge. One letter, he said, was from someone in prison, and another one from someone who wanted several thousand dollars in advance. He also mentioned Kasparov's defeat to a computer and something about how Bridge is very different than Chess. I do not remember all the details. I quickly browsed through this chapter in a book store. I do remember he mentioned that no one who plays Bridge seriously responded to his challenge, because a Bridge player, according to him, knows this can't be done. I don't play Bridge, so I had no idea if he was right.
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