Author: george petty
Date: 00:03:12 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 02:37:25, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 00:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 13, 2000 at 23:07:07, James Robertson wrote: > >>>If DB plays a match with, say, Leko as a preemptory event and draws or loses, >>>all of the mystique of a super-machine facing the strongest human in the world >>>goes out the window, as obviously it is weaker than many humans. It is better >>>for Hsu to keep his machine under wraps and use its unknown play for publicity >>>and as a weapon. > >>Of course GM players don't go into seclusion for several months before playing >>for the world title, right? > >I have to comment on this, the way I have several times before. It is not a >matter of going into seclusion. It is a matter of being completely unknown, and >that's a different thing. > >If someone says that Fritz beat DB, you can say it wasn't DB, and in fact you >yourself did in the part of the above that I snipped. But if someone says that >Kasparov has not seen DB, the argument is that he can go look at the games of >DT. > >Well, that is not fair. DT is either DB or it isn't. I don't think that it is. > >I think that it's fair to want to see at least some examples of the play of your >opponent before having to play a match, and since DT is not DB, Kasparov didn't >see any. > >To have to play something that is absolutely unknown is no big deal when you are >eight years old and are playing in a scholastic tournament. But when you are at >the top level, where minor factors matter a great deal because the limits of the >human mind are being reached, I think it has to be a big disadvantage to be >pitted against the mystery box from Mars. > >It's not like he has to see a hundred games in order to try to cook the thing's >book. I think he deserves to see a few representative middlegames and endgames >so he can try to figure out the thing's capacity. During that match for all he >knew the thing was searching forty plies. > >bruce You are a man after my heart. I concur with you 100%. You have addressed the things that any reasonable and fair person would desire for himself, so is only logical to be fair with the other person. George
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