Author: Marc Plum
Date: 16:56:53 03/12/00
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(Sigh) I should know better than to respond to trolls, but . . . If you are going to be fair minded, you will have to concede the possibility that either side *could* cheat. How do you "KNOW" that the Deep Junior team isn't playing "advanced chess" with the computer and a team of human GMs? Of course, I don't believe any such ridiculous thing. But then, I don't have a strong emotional investment in the outcome of the match. Best, Marc :-) On March 12, 2000 at 19:03:45, Roger wrote: >Yes, the only way we will ever know that the games are fair is if she loses. Let >us hope she loses, because we will at least know for sure that the games are >reality, rather than just a simulation created for us on her one gigahertz >machine. > >I suspected as much from the beginning, and have always wanted her to lose for >this reason. I just hate it when I can't tell if things are fake or not. > >I think that if she wins, this alone is reason enough to have her title taken >away as a cheat. If she has any morals at all, she will lose and keep the title >of woman's world FIDE champion free of disgrace. > >Roger > > > >On March 12, 2000 at 15:34:07, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Now Xie has more than 4 days to pratice against Deep Junior 6.0 using her >>recently purchase AMD ATHLON 1000 Mhz according to my informer from china. >>It is not quite the same Junior 6.0 compare to DJ 6.0 which use a Quad 550 Mhz, >>but at least she can force her computer to take twice the amount of time to >>analyze different responses and see for herself which course of action to take >>since Junior 6.0 will give her different evaluations based on different moves. >>It is not fair for Deep Junior team, especially Amir to continue game 1 >>previously adjourned, because of the home analysis with a program 90% similar to >>Deep Junior 6.0 programmed by the same programmer. Therefore, if game 1 could >>not have been continued immediately as game two, of course Xie Jun has the >>advantage in this case. And again after the 16 of March she should not have any >>excuses, since her other tournament will not take away her total concentration >>with this match.
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