Author: Albert Silver
Date: 08:07:04 05/12/00
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On May 12, 2000 at 06:16:13, Hans Gerber wrote:
>>I wasn't there personally, so I can't say who attended which meetings, and I
>>don't plan on bugging Hsu to ask for recollections about what happened.
>>
>>Clearly by round 3 he suggested something was wrong. Little doubt about how
>>to interpret the comment Albert gave you a link to. A direct accusation...
>
>Two aspects: 1) the exact moment of his question and of the denial of the
>prints, 2) the difference between events in reality and the reality of articles
>in newspapers about "events". Let us analyse before we make our conclusions.
>
>You hypostated a direct connection between his _public_ question (which in
>itself is accusation and insult in your view) and the (therefore justified)
>_reaction_ of the DB team and IBM. Up to this moment I don't have any proof that
>Kasparov made any (public) accusations after game two.
>
>The article by B. Weber allows the ref went into the public with Kasparov's
>request. Thus the request was stamped as impolite and based on a kind of
>confusion. But _if_ it was made in discretion and in the belief of friendly
>terms of talking?
Kasparov isn't really know for his discretion, and if it had been printed
against his will, he would not still be making this accusation _publicly_ until
today. Here is a link to a speech given before the students of The Humanitarian
University, St. Petersburg just now, April 10, 2000:
http://www.clubkasparov.com/serve/templates/folders/show.asp?p_docID=4954&p_docLang=EN
It speaks for itself. His argument still goes: if a PC program never plays the
move, then DB couldn't have either. BTW, make sure you get the whole link as
many browsers cut split it after the '?'.
Albert Silver
>At the time of this newspaper's article, the request was not
>even known in public. So, the article documented a turning point, initiated by
>the DB team and IBM, in person of M. Campell, the second man behind Hsu. Perhaps
>you are right that the later official statement was given by Tan, but in this
>article there is a clear presence of the DB team to be seen...
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