Author: Frank Phillips
Date: 09:15:49 08/17/04
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On August 17, 2004 at 07:51:41, Terry Giles wrote: > >On TV tonight (Tuesday 17th @ 09:00pm and also 11:50pm) in the UK on digital >'free to view' BBC FOUR a showing of "Game Over" - Kasparov and the machine. A >documentary film of Kasparov's match with IBM's Deep Blue. > >Terry Quote taken from ChessBase "VJ: I don't think it really matters what I believe but there's a huge body of opinion in chess that Deep Blue made two moves that could not have been made by a computer. These moves are the fulcrum of the film – when they happen you watch Kasparov collapse, you watch a man fall apart because either the fix is in or the machine is capable of things he isn't prepared for. I think there's ample ambiguity to think that the fix was in. Definitely IBM played hardball. They mastered the psychological warfare that's part of championship chess and they deployed all the resources of a giant corporation to break Kasparov. I'm not sure he'll ever be the same again. He was like a finely tuned clock that got stamped on. Ultimately, whether they cheated or not, the breaking of Kasparov was an act of enormous cultural vandalism." [end of quote] I was looking forward to this....... Huge body of opinion. I will be intrigued to find out what that means.
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