Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:16:29 01/10/00
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On January 10, 2000 at 12:03:23, Peter Kappler wrote: >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. > > >Amir's latest post paints a slightly different picture. > >--Peter Doesn't Kasparov's words _always_ paint a slightly different picture? Hint: see the press conference after the last game in the last match. Not to mention the ones in the middle. hint 2: cheating.
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