Author: Frederic Friedel
Date: 09:40:45 01/14/00
FH Hsu sent me the following: This will be my last message on the subject and I will keep it short. I found the initial conditions listed by Owen reasonable, but there were some details that needed to be worked out. One issue was whether the match would be a title match or not. Personally, I prefer a non-title match, but the potential sponsors I knew seemed to be only interested in a title match. My subsequent mails were mainly trying to resolve this issue. At one point, I decided to write an open letter and see whether there were sponsors who would settle for a non-title match. Owen might have misunderstood my intent. Eventually, Owen said what appeared to be a definitive no to my simple question of whether Mr. Kasparov was still interested in a new match. I did state a deadline in a message to Owen. The deadline was my self-imposed time limit of when I should move on if I could not reach a mutual understanding with Mr. Kasparov. It was given as an FYI. However, in retrospect, it was a mistake that I mentioned the deadline as it could easily be misinterpreted. I will not defend whether I was serious about the match proposal. I will just state the following facts. I spent over a year and some of my own money to get the right to the chess chip, and I was prepared to spend another year and half of my life working furiously to make the match happen. Finally, I would like to point out that I have all the resources to build a machine without further funding if need be. It was the necessary condition before IBM management would even consider granting me the chess chip license.
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