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Subject: Re: Garry still singing the same Deep Blue blues...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:39:58 05/08/00

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On May 08, 2000 at 07:30:53, Hans Gerber wrote:

>On May 07, 2000 at 22:04:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 07, 2000 at 15:56:46, Hans Gerber wrote:
>>
>>>On May 06, 2000 at 23:25:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>Beating Kasparov was _the_ goal.  No one ever claimed anything else.
>>>
>>>If the machine had beaten him without its operators upsetting Kasparov, the
>>>result of the match would be more valid. The question (if the machine can beat
>>>Kasparov) is still open because Hsu destroyed his own setting.
>>
>>
>>The operators didn't upset Kasparov. Kasparov upset Kasparov.
>>
>>nothing else...
>
>Playing with words.  :)


I don't think so.  He psyched himself out, based on his on opinion of himself,
plus lots of training against programs that were _nothing_ like the program he
finally had to play.



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