... meter. A $100,000 Fredkin Prize was offered for the first computer to beat a grand master at chess. Grand masters wouldn't risk the embarrassment until IBM boosted the jackpot to $700,000 for the winner and $400,000 for the loser. In 1997 Garry Kasparov lost to Big Blue. Today's Inducement Prizes include the "X" Prize, an award of $10 million for the first privately built craft to carry passengers in sub-orbital space flight. The 33-year-old millionaire John Carmack, Doom and Quake video game designer, is ...
