Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:14:13 01/10/00
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On January 10, 2000 at 07:32:44, Vincent Diepeveen 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 > >Thanks. I read a number of things in it and miss a major thing > >What i miss: > - did kasparov get offered money, and if so how much? > kasparov will dead sure play if he gets some dollars. > learn me how chessplayers are! They're all addicted > to money. No price fund garantuee, no match. Dead simple. > >What's obvious: > - Hsu says he needs a sponsor to rewrite Deep Blue to > an other design that's cheaper and commercializable. > Well i would love to get money to professional develop DIEP > too! Of course he's not gonna get much money for free to > develop deep blue. It already has won from Kasparov. And what > non-academic here beliefs that in a rematch over a lot more > games that deep blue makes a chance against Kasparov? Deep > Hsu has a high risk to FAIL. This is not worth the money. > > - Hsu doesn't write how much money he asked from the sponsors for > himselve. > If Hsu just needs 30,000 dollar to live from. 100,000 dollar > to buy some software and hardware needed to make a CPU. And > 100000 to test the CPU, then we talk about other numbers as > when talking about many millions just to make a chip. > >This open letter, for which we thank Hsu he writes it, basically says >something about something obvious: it's hard to find money. > >Saying that Kasparov refused i don't find fair without saying the exact >conditions which he declined. > >Vincent I totally disagree. For the first match (and the rematch) when Kasparov was approached, he agreed to play but then put conditions on the prize fund. In this case, he didn't even ask... just "not interested". It was obvious that the last match wore him out. I doubt he wanted to face a possibly stronger machine the next time and go thru it again.
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