Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:45:52 01/10/00
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On January 09, 2000 at 23:42:04, stuart taylor wrote: >On January 09, 2000 at 22:58:53, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On January 09, 2000 at 22:39:32, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On January 09, 2000 at 22:21:25, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>> >>>>You can read the letter at http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/feng.html >>>> >>>>Your comments? >>>> >>>>Dave >>> >>>In a way it's a shame that it won't happen, but what it apears to me to be is >>>Kasparov just digging for publicity, and this pretty much unfairly drags Hsu >>>into it when his time could probably be better spent. >>> >>>Kasparov needs to stop talking and return to playing Chess, maybe defend his >>>fictitious World Chess Champ title or something, it's about ime he does that, >>>he's starting to apear more & more like Mr. Fischer every day. That's just my >>>opinion. >>> >>>Pete >> >>Kasparov didn't have anything to do with this letter, did he? >> >>bruce > > > >Therefore? others can try to take up the matter and ask Mr. Hsu to hang on >a bit? > All these unaccepted challenges can't be helping morale very much. >If many people honestly don't see Kasparov himself as being world champion >then that can't be very helpful to his morale either.Why should he keep >fighting when people are just laughing? > I don't even understand why Fisher is not still world champion-in truth. >But failing that, how can it not be Kasparov? He beat fide champion Karpov >and if fide can own a title, it's certainly not that of world chess champion >by implication. certainly not after what they did to suzan Polgar. > I never saw this being discussed. > Anyway it seems wrong for Kasparov to ignore a deep-blue acceptance of >challenge now. Even though the best human computer player might be Anand. Suppose you are GM and best of a country and I offer you 1 dollar to play a long and tiring match against my program. If you decline i post: "GM declines fair offer". It is not fair to post something without mentionning the biggest detail: how much money is this about? How much did kasparov get offered? Was it SURE that he would receive this amount of money or just a vague guess?
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