Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:49:24 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 22:34:08, george petty wrote: >On January 18, 2000 at 21:51:54, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Let's suppose the worst. IBM decided to cheat. Now, folks like Anand and >>Karpov are not going to risk a lifetime ban by doing something illegal. So it >>would pretty much have to be a lower-eschelon player. [Well, they could have >>crammed RJF into that box, but he would have been deathly afraid of a sinister >>plot, I'm afraid -- so I think we can rule that out also]. >> >>So what are we left with? How do you cheat against the world's best player (by >>a landslide?)??? >> >>You have some lower level GM who can be tempted and yet will *never* spill the >>beans (hmm -- it seems it would take millions to do that, but what if he put the >>money in a Swiss bank account and decided to write a book... Sounds a bit risky >>doesn't it) >> >>In short the cheater theories are idiotic. It does not work. Even if you could >>somehow pull it off, you would be sneaking in some high school track star to run >>against Michael Johnson. And then taking the ENORMOUS risk that for the rest of >>his life, he would keep his mouth shut. >> >>It's ludicrous. Insanely, bizarre. I can't imagine how such a foolish >>expression can even escape the lips of any intelligent, thinking person. >> >>But forget all that, and suppose that you somehow manage to have a very clever >>human (maybe we get a 2600GM who hates GK's intestines) to participate. The >>human says "Rxb2" and the computer says "a4." Whom do you believe? The GM >>can't outplay Kasparov -- we already know that. >> >>I will admit that having a super-GM in cahoots with Deep Blue *would* make a >>stronger pair -- if you had a few months to form a workable system and a few >>hundred games. But the risk is so enormous that only a great fool would believe >>an image conscious company like IBM would try a foolhardy thing like that. >> >>In short, I lose respect for any person who says they believe in that hokey >>"conspiracy" theory. > > How you can come up with all that from my statements is FANTASTIC. Boy I > have seen people take things out of context, but I have to say this tops them > all. I have never seen so much jealousy, and no sense of fair play. No > wonder the rest of the world laughs at Americans. Don't wait for the FACTS, > just prejudge. No body was talking about "conspiracy". But you have all the > answers. NONSENSE!! I did not say I did. I say lets wait and see what the > FACTS are. Hopefully we are not trying to write fiction on this post, but > what is based on FACTS. What makes you think I was talking about you? I had Kasparov in mind, but I have heard many others mouth such nonesense. What facts, exactly are you waiting for, by the way?
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