On May 6, 8:13 am, ***@webtv.net (SAT W-7) wrote:
> who would be the first to win 5 games between Helpbot and Mr K ??? I
> would like to see them play a tournament ..Would it be a 40 or 50 game
> classic like Kasporov and Karpov ?
Um, I don't think so. You see, that Karpov
fellow had a lot of training, including attending
Mr. Botvinnik's chess school, while I have not
had even one chess lesson... unless you
count all those tournament losses as such
(quite a few of those were "lessons").
My prediction is that Mr. K(asparov) would
demand that 100% of the official prize fund
(along with an undisclosed under-the-table
sum) go to the winner, plus movie rights. In
response, I would be forced to "demand"
QN-and-move odds in every game, thus
thwarting his evil scheme (or rather, just
making him work a bit for his pay.
> By the way that game should have
> never been stopped until they had a winner ..Who cares how tired they
> were , you suck it up and keep playing until you get a winner ..The
> strongest will win.....
To get this right, you have to back up to
the point where /FIDE/ determined the
match conditions; it was, I believe, the
FIDE assembly which decided in favor of
a no-limit match-- a beginner's blunder if
ever there was one. Now, add on the
problems with the venue (we're taking
things chronologically, for that is how
things actually occur in the real world)
and, let's say, the match arbiter not
wanting to spend the rest of his natural
life officiating just one chess match, the
supposed health problems (I say
supposed because it is normal for the
players to lose weight in such an event),
Ray Keene's attempts to negotiate a
halt to the match, journalists who for
some reason do not want to spend the
rest of their natural lives covering one
chess match, and then, finally, we get
to where the Presidente of FIDE enters,
stage right. Of course, we all know
how the talking heads feel about /him/;
it is no secret that Mr. Keene ran against
Mr. Campomanes in a hotly-contested
FIDE election, losing badly. No wonder
then, that the Evans ratpack has ever
after whined and cried, and lashed out
at Mr. Campomanes in much the same
way as Richardo Montalban did James
T. Kirk in the Star Trek movie, The
Wrath of Khan... .
Oddly enough, the bizarre spin was
that when the FIDE Presidente halted
the match, declaring it a draw and arbi-
trarily deciding that a new match would
start /with the score at 0-0/, this was
supposedly proof that Mr. Kasparov
had been cheated! LOL Well, he was
cheated of an opportunity to possibly
set some record with regard to his age,
although I suspect that Mr. Tal (as well
as Mr. Morphy) was not so very easily
bested here.
I once watched one of those ultimate
fighting championships, which is run
much like a Swiss system chess tour-
nament. During the event, a seperate
"match" was held in the ring, with two
former UFC champions facing one
another under specific conditions. The
result was obviously going to be a draw,
with the smaller fellow defending on his
back, the more muscular chap on top
punching him-- but carefully. This was
simply not what the organizers wanted;
the crowd, it was thought, wanted blood;
they wanted a decisive match, one way
or the other. So, what did they do?
Why, they changed the rules in mid-
game! It was arbitrarily decided that
another ten minutes would be added
on, and the guy whose strategy was to
"survive" got bloodied and beaten into
submission. I am reminded of those
old Roman gladiator fights, attended
by throngs of blood-thirsty primitives...
ah, but little has really changed in two
thousand years, except that now we
have slow-motion replay... .
I was gravely disappointed by the
UFC, as those guys lacked any real
skill (except the little guy who could
defend while on his back). I've seen
more fighting skill in a 30-second TV
commercial for a Jackie Chan movie
than in this entire program! Come
to think of it, I saw more skill in the old
TV series, Kung Fu... and I expect
that David Carradine could take just
about any of these guys in a set
match, using just his Kung Fu acting
skills. Bruce Lee could have taken
all of them on at the same time... .
-- help bot