Author: Hans Gerber
Date: 12:18:56 05/07/00
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On May 07, 2000 at 10:34:26, Ed Schröder wrote: >Right, the match was not invalid. However the point Hans is making is >that the match was presented (by IBM) as being "science" which is to >laugh about. If it was about science the request of Kasparov to see >the logfile should have been granted 10 minutes after the request and >not 2 years later. Yes, this was my point. By not giving the logfiles the scientists destroyed their own experimental setting because Kasparov no longer played "normal chess". In social sciences you analyse human behavior. The question was 'who played better chess', not 'the quality of the chessplay of Kasparov after being confused'. I hope nobody will deny that upsetting Kasparov in a very unfriendly manner was a _factor_ in the match. It's as if they had set Kasparov under drugs. Therefore the result of the match is invalid.
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