Author: James T. Walker
Date: 13:29:38 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. This is very interesting and at the same time amazing! The Strongest player in the world is afraid to play Fritz!!! I can understand his reluctance to play a newer stronger Deep Blue Chip but Fritz!? He admits to using it often and should be very familiar with it. Some of his recent wins seem to come from ideas he got from Fritz. What more proof do we need that he was really shocked by the Deep Blue loss and really wants nothing to do with it again? Jim Walker
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