Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 21:07:16 04/07/99
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On April 07, 1999 at 19:52:48, Adnan wrote: >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. Check out my message at http://www.icdchess.com/ccc/message.shtml?48307 Dave Gomboc
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