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Subject: Re: "Techmate" by Garry Kasparov [02.22.99]

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:24:36 05/03/00

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On May 03, 2000 at 09:48:50, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On May 03, 2000 at 09:32:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Do they need to explain?  I don't believe they had _any_ obligation to release
>>them, ever...
>
>That depends if they had made the agreement with Kasparov. If that is the case,
>then they're obligated. But since the subject doesn't interest me at all, I
>don't know if a agreement was made.
>
>Sincerely,
>Mogens


There was _never_ any term in the signed contract requiring them to make the
printouts public.  He asked, on the spur of the moment, and they first said
"sure" but then thought better of it.  I see no problem with that.  Because he
asked for something outside the written contract, in a public forum, on a
microphone, rather than in writing...



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