Author: margolies,marc
Date: 09:26:18 11/18/03
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Hi! Thanks for your response. I was not sure the arbitor could see the board until you told me so. Might you know, doc, are the 3D goggles used in this event a 'shutter system' or some sort of color-coded affair? (I wonder if this bears upon the arbitor's ability to see the colored pieces viz. orientation.) Regarding Gari's behavior, it's clear we see tha same act differently. You say he complained like a loser (my interpretation) and I say exactly so! because injured winners do not seek remediation. On November 18, 2003 at 10:19:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 17, 2003 at 22:15:17, margolies,marc wrote: > >>Hi Martin (btw i love your checkers prog) >> >> I think Gari was very correct to dress down the Match Arbiter, Albert Vassar, >>regarding the conditions of game 2. >>a> it is the Arbiter's Responsibility to ensure that the playing conditions are >>correct-- and as Seirawan pointed out--- discomforts are only suffered by the >>Human side because the Machine 'feels nothing.' >>b>Since the Technology was part of the match, the machine should have suffered a >> time penalty for operator error, in my opinion. >>c> MOST IMPORTANTLY, it shows that arbiter Vasser never put on the stupid X3D >>goggles to look at the board! What kind of arbiter at a chess match in virtual >>reality cannot see the board ever! This is the rudest hoax I can imagine. > >You _can_ see the board without the glasses. It looks a little blurred because >of the two interlaced frames, but you can see the board just fine. Seeing the >colors is even easier. > >BTW this is _not_ a "virtual reality" setup. This is just a 3-d graphical >display. Virtual reality is something else entirely. > > >>Morever, In game 1 when I saw some of the TV coverage, Vassar just sat in a >>chair where he could not observe anything-- and I did not see a pair of the >>stupid glasses supplied to him either. He looked rather funny to me, like the >>character comedian Chris Elliot played in the movie "13 Ghosts," and he only >>needed a fake claw hand to complete the comedy. >>Of course Gari would only complain because he lost (and this does Look like sour >>grapes) but had Gari won, would this Arbitorial Malfeasance have caused >>considerable injury to necessitate a Public grievance? >>-Marc >> > > >The real question is, "had he won, would he have complained so much about >the reversed board?" The answer is most likely "no". > > > >>
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