Ange1o DePa1ma wrote:
I have the greatest respect for Dan, but I think this story is a hoax.

Who would put up $15 million to sponsor a match of gothic chess, where
Fischer was a participant? What will the sponsors receive in return? The
Fischer factor aside, who will be interested in this contest? As a chess
player, I am not very interested in variants except perhaps for Fischer
Random. I've never even played over a F-R game though.

Supposedly the prize fund will be between $10 million and $15 million, plus
for some reason the organizers must rent *all* the rooms in the hotel for
the duration of the match, so you can throw in another few million. Plus the
organization.

I'll go out on a limb: this match will never happen. If it does it will be a
huge dud.

adp

My take.

Fischer will back out thus the fairly premature announcement since
all the details have not been worked out. So they get all the publicity
now and will deal with any fallout if/when Fischer backs out. Which
shouldn't be too much since people know how totally irrational Fischer
is now.