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Subject: Re: CB express 62 on Kasparov in England

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 05:39:14 05/24/98

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On May 24, 1998 at 08:24:36, Dirk Frickenschmidt wrote:

> After reading and viewing carefully, I think some extremely
> interesting stuff can be found on Chessbase Express 62 from Kasparov's
> visit in England.

Yes, Ed Schroeder already announced this a while back and also gave
us the URL of the according pages on the Chessbase WWW page. Most
of Kasparov's comments are freely available online.

> I thought, no matter what IBM did, maybe the Deep Blue team was
> ok and did a great job.

IMO, they did a great job in terms of *technology* and deserve great
respect for their according achievements.

> I doubt this now. Especially some of Mr. Hsus
> from my view quite questionable comments on fairness in the match
> posted here by Keith Ian Price (if I remember correctly) have not done
> much to strengthen my trust in the critical awareness of the
> scientific members of the Deep Blue team: concerning what they did as
> willing helpers of an IBM advertising campaign, or in their nearly
> paranoid attempt to get the chance to beat Kasparov by any means.

I was quite surprised by some of Hsu's remarks myself. Especially,
his seemingly paranoid unwillingness to publish the much-discussed games
of the slowed-down DB Jr. against commercial microcomputer chess
programs
(such as Genius & Rebel) made me wonder ...

Furthermore, I am very disappointed that he seems to feel no scientific
obligation to publish any *computer-chess specific* details about the
novelties uncovered by the DB team.

=Ernst=



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