Author: Duncan Stanley
Date: 04:21:37 04/21/01
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On April 21, 2001 at 06:07:21, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: Let's be clear about what is going on. There are two 'publics' to perform the "Public Relations" on. First is the Computer Chess Forum Public. Here your battle is already lost. The 'selection' procedure was done closed, the 'selection' procedure excludes more than it includes, the 'selection' procedure is designed to get a particular result, the 'selection' procedure is erroneously defined as 'expert'. You are of course free to 'choose' your challenger and your challenger procedure, but it has not fooled anyone in the 'First' Forum that anything other than a piece of cynical manipulation has occured. The Second Public is the "Wider World". In this case the shenanigans seen here are designed to be able to present, using PR executives of infinitely greater skill and expertise, a 'fair' and 'reasonable' contest with 'wide meaning' for the understanding of 'Artificial Intelligence', the 'Great Contest between Human and Cyber intelligence' as represented by the 'Noble Game of Chess' and blah-blah-blah ..... Well, you can fool some of the people all of the time, and these are the ones you should concentrate on. >Press Release > >BGN World Computer Challenge latest > >BGN offers postponement to allow Shredder to compete > >Brain Games Network, the organiser of the 2000 World Chess Championship, >will stage the first Man v Machine Championship since 1997 later this year. >In order to find a program to challenge world champion Vladimir Kramnik the >top four software programs have been invited to play in an eliminator. So >far, Fritz and Junior have accepted, while the IBM Deep Blue team have >declined. The organisers, BGN, are still hoping that Shredder will also >compete and have offered to postpone the start of the tournament in >Cadaques, Spain, to allow Shredder more time to accept the invite. Here is >the text of the latest invite to the Shredder team. > > >Invitation to Shredder > >Brain Games Network would like to make it completely clear to all those >behind the esteemed and highly respected Shredder program that the >invitation to compete in the Cadaques Candidates tournament for top >programs is still open and will remain open until close of business on >Monday 23 April. > >As is well known, the winner of the Cadaques tournament will earn the right >to play against Vladimir Kramnik in the supreme Man v Machine tournament >later this year. > >Brain Games Network originally invited the world's top four programs: IBM's >Deep Blue, Shredder, Fritz and Junior. Fritz and Junior have accepted the >invitation while IBM have declined. Everyone at BGN would be delighted and >honoured if the Shredder team would reconsider their original decision and >agree to compete. > >The conditions for all competing programs will be absolutely identical to >ensure a level playing field. The games will be played under public >scrutiny in the Rocamar Hotel in Cadaques and members of the press will be >on hand to witness fair play. > >If the Shredder team can reply positively to this invitation by close of >business on Monday 23 April, BGN will be delighted to postpone the start of >the event until 26 April to ensure their participation. If not then >,regretfully, the event will proceed in Shredder's absence.
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