Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:02:30 04/23/98
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On April 23, 1998 at 19:22:59, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >IBM was the "referee", true?. How did GK possibly let >this happen? Was he not aware of the "air" that would >surround a match where the referee was the sponsor? No. There was a committee to handle such disputes... Monty Newborn, Ken Thompson, Mike Valvo, and I'm not sure else... > >Also,I believe Deep Blue was allowed to change >its settings before each game (or was it each move), presumably >programmed in by the programmers to confuse GK. Was this >reprogrammability built-in and automatic between games or was it >done by the programmers between games. What is the concensus of >people on this group about doing such a thing? Certainly if it's >programmable, it's fair game. But shouldn't it be limited to only >permitted if completely automatic and done by the program free of the >programmers? The programmers could change things between rounds. *just* as Kasparov could go back to his room, and let his "seconds" provide him with new opening analysis to use the next day for himself. Computer events have *always* allowed programming changes between rounds, but *never* during a round... You could make up any rules you want, of course, including "no changes" for the match... They didn't, IBM didn't so it was "fair game". And there's no real justification to such a rule, since you don't require that the human go into a soundproof booth and have no outside contact... > >--Stuart
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