Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:15:21 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 16:57:48, Pete R. wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 16:02:37, Alvaro Polo wrote: > >>If I were Hsu I would spend $100,000 dollars of my own money just to have the >>dream of my life realized. Of course I know more about my own finantial >>situation than about his. But he would SURE find a sponsor. Perhaps not >>Microsoft, Intel or Sun. Perhaps not a couple of million dollars of >sponsorship, but enough to cover his costs and make him live. A medium size > >I tend to agree. I was operating on the assumption that Hsu needed a sponsor >first to build the machine. If that's not the case, and it wouldn't totally >break the bank, I would be inclined to go for it. This means nothing since we >are different personalities, but there come times in everyone's life where you >just have to go for it. No guts no glory. Who dares, wins. If I knew I could >build a machine that could just stomp everyone, I would build it. If you build >it they will come. ;) Odds are *very* good that at some point you will recoup >your money and then some. If the machine crushes everything and everyone, can >Kasparov really duck it? How lame would that look? Even without him it would >be sufficiently entertaining to watch it whip everyone that people will want to >see it, and hence sponsors will put money in. I think it would be a safe bet. >So much so that *I* would even be willing to invest in it. I can't imagine that >corporate sponsors could ignore it. I don't think corporate sponsors would sign on for _anything_ less than another Kasparov match. Playing any other human would not cut it after DB has already beaten Kasparov. A 3rd "rubber" match would produce a lot of interest, like the multiple Frasier/Ali boxing matches. But not someone that Kasparov can crush like an empty beer can. And since Kasparov seems to be not interested, I don't see how anything could be 'sold' to advertisers...
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