Author: pavesyles
Date: 11:32:05 01/10/00
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On January 10, 2000 at 09:14:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. > bull winkle fischer i mean kasparov is a total chicken bak bak bak bak abk bleak
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