Author: Hans Gerber
Date: 13:49:15 05/07/00
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On May 07, 2000 at 16:09:13, Ed Schröder wrote: >On May 07, 2000 at 15:18:56, Hans Gerber wrote: > >>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. > >From a scientific point of view the match was invalid, I agee. But from >the point of view of a normal chess match he lost. > >Ed I agree. But in that case Kasparov wouldn't have asked that question. BTW Kasparov mentioned many times that he always saw the obligation for the DB team to give the logfiles. I don't understand why this so difficult to understand. Both sides, the people around DB _and_ Kasparov (and the whole world of chess), wanted to know how strong DB could play chess. You see it wasn't just a normal match.
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