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Subject: Re: Wired - but not connected (more K-PC)

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 14:11:25 04/23/01

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On April 23, 2001 at 15:22:29, Albert Silver wrote:

>My attention was drawn to the following article published in Wired on the match
>and tournament:
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,43203,00.html
>
>More of the same nonsense rehashed:
>
>- "the top four challengers in the world", not mentioning why these are the top
>four challengers.
>
>- "so that left Deep Fritz, Deep Junior and a program called Shredder..."
>
>Sigh. You'd think DF and DJ were the automatic heirs here (they are presented as
>by-names) and Shredder was some obscure complete ousider (it needs to be
>explained there is such a program). Pity, you'd hope that at least one
>publication would get this right without all the lopsided bias heaped here.

Good link, Albert. There are a few nonsensical comments as you mention, but at
least everyone's point of view is represented as far as I can tell.

Mogens.



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