Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 10:03:45 08/17/04
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On August 17, 2004 at 12:15:49, Frank Phillips wrote: >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." That's a load of crap. We should all say to Mr. K, "welcome to our world". There is no need to invent a conspiracy as the reason for the crushing of his oversized ego. >[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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