Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 13:57:05 01/15/00
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On January 15, 2000 at 16:29:38, James T. Walker wrote: >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 Got the impression that Garry wants mucho of two things: Money and prestige. How much of these can he win by playing Fritz?...
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