Author: Mark Young
Date: 20:28:59 10/11/02
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On October 11, 2002 at 21:11:45, Ed Schröder wrote: >The Dubious Qualifier >How Fritz "earned" the right to play the Million Dollar Challenge > >As Vladimir Kramnik does battle with Fritz in the battle of Bahrain, scheduled >for an October 2002 start, many will no doubt be interested in how this match >came about, and how the participants were chosen. The Human representative, >Kramnik, was automatically invited by virtue of his holding the traditional >World Champion title, which he earned by defeating Kasparov in their 2000 match, >where I participated as arbiter. > >As soon as the BGN World Championship match between Kasparov and Kramnik had >concluded, Ray Keene asked me to begin working on the Man vs. Machine Million >Dollar Challenge (as it was then called, at my suggestion). It wasn’t until the >end of March, however, that the organization of the qualification and final >match got down to details. The qualifying event turned out to be quite a >controversial affair. I felt to withdraw as arbiter for reasons which will be >presented in Part One of this document. That did not affect my status as arbiter >of the final, and I developed a full set of rules for the match, in cooperation >with both Team Fritz and Team Kramnik. That will be covered in Part Two. >However, events of September 11, 2001 forced a postponement of the match. During >the interval, BGN sold the rights for the match to the Einstein TV group, who >hired Malcolm Pein to take on the role previously occupied by Ray Keene. I was >again invited as arbiter, but my participation was vetoed by Team Fritz, as will >be discussed in Part Three. > >Part One deals with the controversial qualifying tournament held in Cadaques, >Spain,. to choose a challenger for Kramnik. Because many questions have been >raised about this event, I am going to refrain from presenting any prejudicial >commentary, though I may do so at some time in the future. Instead, I place in >the public record a large set of internal emails. I should point out that I >never received any compensation for my work, and am under no obligation to keep >this material from the public. It is certainly in the public interest to make >this material available, and however one might judge the actions of each >individual, I think that all the correspondents behaved very well. Indeed, even >after I withdrew from the qualifier I remained an integral part of the team >working on the big final match, so obviously we felt confident that we could all >work together. It is not my intention to disparage any individuals involved. >Each has made very significant contributions to chess and our disagreements over >matters of policy and philosophy should not be taken as personal animosity. > >More at: http://www.chesscity.com/HISTORY/dubious_qualifier.htm > >A couple of hours reading, no joke. > >Ed Thanks Ed for the posting....Lets me know what I thought about some people here on CCC was correct.:)
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