Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 02:04:54 09/28/97
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On September 27, 1997 at 17:44:12, Bruce Moreland wrote: >Accusing anyone of cheating, with no supporting evidence, is simply an >unwarranted attack. He found anomolies in the move times, specifically with panic-time, and strangenesses in the output data. He pointed to Kasparov's cryptic and not so cryptic comments about DB getting human assistance. > >Nobody has evidence that DB cheated in that game, other than that the >program found an interesting move. Normally you don't get any direct evidence in such cases. So Amir Ban was looking around for strange behaviours instead. Chris > >My program has looked at that position for 50 billion nodes. It didn't >find Be4, but I discovered that the position was tending toward a draw >(+0.13). Variance in eval function could easily cause one move to pop >up above the other. In the last ply, perhaps the value of the position >after Qb6 dropped a bit, and that triggered the thing to search >longer. > >There is no need to assume that anyone cheated, certainly there is >nothing that would support an accusation in a public forum. > >bruce >
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