Do players still fight for honor, and not prize money?
Written by Ignacio Dee
Sunday, 24 July 2005, id:23 Article cached on Thursday, 07 August 2008 10:03:35
This still happens in a country like the Philippines, whose national championship for men and women, are being held without prize money.
Philippine chess federation officials made this radical decision to solve game-fixing, which unofficial sources claimed to have worsened in the last few years.
In Chess, Masters Again Fight Machines
Written by Dylan Loeb McClain
Sunday, 24 July 2005, id:22 Article cached on Thursday, 07 August 2008 08:18:18
It has been eight years since Garry Kasparov, then the world chess champion, lost a match to the computer Deep Blue.
In the wake of Deep Blue's victory, it would not have been surprising if elite players stopped competing against computers. After all, if the world's best player could not beat a computer, how could lesser ones? The possibility, even probability, of losing - and perhaps losing badly - to a machine could have particularly discouraged grandmasters, who are known to have egos that match their abilities and who sometimes have difficulty accepting defeat.
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