Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 20:59:02 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. I have a very distinct recollection of Kasparov saying that he would be willing to play in Frankfurt if the games against the computer would all be on the same day. His argument - which I accept - is that is terribly difficult to switch from anti-human to anti-computer mode. If he now says he will not play at all, I can chalk it up to the challenges the strongest player in world does not feel strong enough to play: Shirov, Anand, Deep Blue (Hsu?). The story continues, and the Beast of Baku is gradually losing, oh no, not status!, perish the thought: he will probably wipe the floor with his opponents in Wijk, but creditibility as a person concerned for the future of Chess. Charley
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