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Subject: Re: Kasparov is afraid

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 14:01:32 01/10/00

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On January 10, 2000 at 16:08:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 10, 2000 at 14:37:14, pavesyles wrote:
>
>>say it has to be ths answer that fischer i mean Kasparov wont ever play deep
>>fear  again .i submit kasparov is  a scared chicken bakbakabkabk bleak
>
>
>I don't think it is fear as you are proposing it.  I think it is fear for
>having to put forth the incredible mental effort he had to use to avoid
>the tactical teeth of Deep Blue.  The game he won in round 1 could have
>_easily_ been lost... and probably would have been lost by any but the top
>couple of players in the world.  White had some interesting tactical problems
>to solve, and he did.  But at a great cost of concentration-type energy.
>
>IE Hsu said he doubt he could be motivated to re-design the chip without some
>sort of sponsorship and another Kasparov match to motivate him. I can understand
>that.  When I did Crafty's parallel search, I did _not_ want to expend the
>amount of time I did in Cray Blitz.  I wasn't up to that level of long-term
>concentration of effort...
>
>I think that is his problem with another match.. the dreading of expending that
>much mental effort again...


Bob,
I pretty agree with your assessment of GK not wanting to play BUT GK is the one
who wanted a rematch. He has mentioned it numerous X's



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