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Subject: Re: Kasparov is afraid

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 06:39:51 01/11/00

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On January 10, 2000 at 21:18:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 10, 2000 at 17:01:32, Lonnie Cook wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
>When you were young, did you ever say something like "come outside and I'll kick
>your butt for saying that"??  all the time hoping (and being pretty sure) that
>your adversary would _not_ come outside for some reason?  IE it is easy to issue
>a challenge when you don't think it will be accepted... and then start making
>demands (IE NY-2 revisited) in an effort to bollux things up and get the thing
>cancelled that way...
>
>I think that was the 'bottom line'...

But GK is a man! He's WC!



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