Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 12:08:15 10/16/02
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On October 16, 2002 at 03:48:02, bryan whitby wrote: >I can remember years and years ago when Fidelity fixed the results of their >multiple entries into the then World Microcomputer Chess Championships. Their >operators would resign in won positions, just to let their leading chess >computer win the game and gain more points. So cheating in computer chess has >been with us for many years. That's just about the weakest argument I have ever heard. So because one person or team allegedly cheated once upon a time, the Fritz team has in some magical way pursuaded Kramnik to throw the match? Ohhhhhhhhkay... A baseball team threw the world series once. Obviously all future baseball teams are cheaters (according to your logic). A human once murdered another human. Obviously we're all a bunch of murderers (according to your logic). Yes, cheating has happened in the past. No, it doesn't mean you can lump everyone of the same category as the cheater into that same cheating category. If we assume what you say is true we easily arrive at a contradiction, which means that what you say is false. If what you say is true, then we can assume that since at least one human has lied in the past that you are a liar, and so what you say isn't true. I always wondered when that stupid logic class was going to come in handy :) Russell
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