Author: James Robertson
Date: 20:47:51 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 13:04:54, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. I would like totally jam to see a way cool match with one of those 'dudes'. :) James
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