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Subject: Re: What guarentee do we have that the grandmaster is getting no assistance?

Author: Joel Bradley

Date: 15:58:38 07/06/99

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 I'm new to this group and normaly would just lurk, but I gotta say that ANY
person who rates a MASTER level at ANY profession deserves more respect than
this.
 I wouldn't waste skills and talent that I've spent years developing for a
pitiful amount of money and large amount of insult. Why should anyone?

IMHO -- no offense intended

joel
On July 06, 1999 at 16:22:36, blass uri wrote:

>
>On July 06, 1999 at 09:26:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>2.  GM players don't get a lot of money (often no money) for playing a computer,
>>and 40/2 takes a lot of time.
>
>If you suppose that the expected result of a GM against Rebel is a draw
>then they can expect to get 250$ for one game.
>
>I think that the average money that most of the GM's  earn from tournament time
>control games is less than 250$ per game (I do not know it and you can correct
>me if I am wrong about it).
>
>If I am right then I expect most of the GM's(except GM's with more than 2600
>rating) to be happy for the opportunity to play against Rebel in tournament time
>control.
>
>Uri



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