Author: Pete Galati
Date: 12:38:10 01/15/00
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On January 15, 2000 at 13:56:04, Pierre Bourget wrote: >From a report of John Henderson on TWIC: > >Leonxto Garcia asked Garry about Feng-hsiung Hsu’s ‘Deep Blue’ challenge, and >would he be playing in Frankfurt if, as expected, Fritz 6 is one of the >competitors? The world no.1 explained that his agent, Owen Williams, had made a >very detailed response to this challenge. "It has to be remembered, Feng-hsiung >Hsu is a free agent now. He doesn’t have the backing of IBM. Now, if IBM were to >issue the challenge, I’m interested." He then addressed the question of playing >Fritz 6 in the Frankfurt Giants’. "I’ve informed the organisers that I won’t >take part if Fritz 6 plays. I well remember the trouble that Genius gave me at >London Intel tournament, 1994. I feel that computers playing in these conditions >would be very unfair for humans. Just from reading the the quotes that you provide it has the appearance that he's lost his nerve, to be honest I won't go and read the rest of the Twic article. He knows that he's safe because he knows that IBM has allready won the war and won't issue a chalange, so he's standing on very safe ground. There's probably allot of PC software that'll take Kasp out in a match at this point, am I wrong? Pete
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