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Subject: Re: Human machine matches

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 21:04:59 08/13/02

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On August 13, 2002 at 19:26:41, Anson T J wrote:

>Why do you say that? Why was it a "blow"?

The reason is that the Kasparov vs. Deeper Blue match turned out to be very bad
publicity for human chess. IBM hyped it up so much that the general public
believed that computers were now better than the best humans.

In addition to that, the match was unfair. IBM didn't cheat (at least not that
anyone has proven), but they bent every rule in their favor.

So basically the public was decieved by IBM in the name of money. That was a
"blow" to the human chess community.

Russell



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