Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 10:04:54 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 12:40:45, Frederic Friedel wrote: >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. Oh well, yet only wanting to play Kasparov with it. How naive. Need to bring some money then. What about another GM of say 2700 who only costs $20k at most or something? There are now 3 official world champions - Kasparov (PCA) - Khalifman (las vegas) - Karpov (he officially has the title for another year) Then there are a bunch of strong GMs who are all willingly to compete anything and anyhow: - Anand - Shirov Very strong & cheap: - Kramnik - Morozevich - Leko - Adams - Ivanchuk - Bareev - Topalov All those dudes are except for Karpov (2696) and Khalifman (2656) above 2700. If one really wants to compete, it's easy to start a match with one of those cool dudes. About 1/100 of the price of Kasparov, and playing stronger against computers. It directly 'qualifies' a computer to play against Kasparov in case you win, though i consider that as unlikely. You sure can find more sponsorship when winning a serious match. Very likely none of them is asking things like: "first show me how it plays". Kasparov also is proving weekly how he plays those dudes. Not searching for some other opponents as well i would consider as a clear signal of weakness.
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