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Subject: The first conspiracy theory-related post on this topic :)

Author: Alastair Scott

Date: 12:11:37 10/05/02

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As far as I can tell.

Conspiracy theories have the wonderful attribute, for their proponents, that
they are impossible to disprove; how can one show that Kramnik was _not_ given a
biscuit tin full of money for his trouble?

The only topic more tiresome is the mass of accusations, after (a new release
of) every backgammon program, that the throw of the dice has been skewed to
favour the computer player. With chess the conspiracy theorist has to be more
devious and indirect; I've not yet see anyone claim that a crucial move was not
played because the parties to the conspiracy crept into the hall at 4am before
the big game started and glued a white pawn to b2, for example.

Alastair



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