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Subject: Re: Kasparov on Deep Blue and Fritz 6

Author: Pete R.

Date: 21:47:56 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."

Ffffffwhat?!?  He expressly said he wanted nothing to do with IBM anymore!  How
many calories does backpedalling like this burn, the man must be in fantastic
shape.  Forget it.  I had some tiny hope that maybe somehow something could be
put together, but not anymore.  Someday soon when any bargain basement PC can
run circles around him he will sincerely regret not taking a big money man vs.
machine match while anybody still cared.



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