Author: Hans Gerber
Date: 04:08:45 05/14/00
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If I question the practices of the scientists of the DB team in 1997, if R.
Hyatt then defends them - completely misunderstanding the question of standards
in science - and claims that it was Kasparov who had started it all with his
"ugly accusations of cheating in puplic on the press conference after the second
game", and the same R. Hyatt can't substabtiate his claims, on the contrary he's
so impolite and arrogant to invite me to do some research in that question, you
were on the spot and insulted my question as boring and stupid.
Now you are not just a noname in computerchess, Hyatt is not exactly just
"someone", Hsu is also _not_ really an unknown figure in the field - baseline is
that the best actors in computerchess don't have a clue when it comes to very
basic standards of science. I am not talking about politeness, about personal
style, also very important details, but I am still talking about the details of
an experimental setting. Instead of answering the question of the strength of
the actual DEEP BLUE (against Kasparov), they tested the abilities of Kasparov
to play chess against the machine after the turn-around of a friendly
relationship into an atmosphere of suspicions about cheating - when the machine
put already enough pressure itself on the human. Also very interesting research
but not the one the DB team was payed for by IBM.
As long as the representatives of computerchess (here I include F. Friedel,
ironically the aid of Kasparov) act arrogantly and mainly on the base of money
(the actual championships in the Netherlands come to mind), the chessplayers
might take the money but they won't play their best chess. In one of your
articles you just had shown the fallacy of false conclusions ("so I am better
than Fischer"), it must be _doable_ that you understand what I am talking
about...
Hans Gerber
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