Author: Charles Unruh
Date: 22:10:59 01/15/00
I in an earlier post said that Kasparov stating that he wouldn't play in the Siemens Nixdorf Giants tournament was "B.S" , after thought though, i have come to the conclusion that he is probably right! This because We here all(except a few holdouts) know from experience that a program such as Rebel is as strong as a GM(weak 2500) at 40/2 running on a mere 600 Mhz machine. In this case though Fritz6(stronger than Rebel IMHO(and when you beat Rebel 15 to 5 as in Enriques tournament, i don't want to hear crap about being better against humans, it's not) will be running on a SUPER fast siemens primenergy server which in essence will make it play like a rebel(probably stronger) at 40/2 even though the time control will be only game in 25. So programs on fast hardware can still play at 40/2 strength even though the TC is but game in 25(humans can't hardly do this). Secondly Even if Kasparov managed to beat or draw his fritz match, Fritz could go on to have better results against the competition than he does, which could result in tons of advertising which says "Fritz finished ahead of world champion Gary Kasparov in a tournament!" This besides pissing him off, would possibly hurt his endorsements, and chances of garnering sponsorship for his match with Anand. Solution might be though, to just go ahead and increase the tournament time control to say game in 2hrs Kasp would have no fear then, as he knows that both he and the competition would fair well against fritz. I'd prefer that TC anyway :). Problem is though, i don't know how the German chess federation is going to deal with this, because the Sponsor Siemens wants to get advertisement out of fritz running on their Hardware! I actually wish there was some way to sue him and force him to play(I hope they got him locked into some kind of contract). Because regardless i still want him to play :).
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