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Subject: Re: this is PR !! "... sequel ....by the supercomputer Deep Blue ..."

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 00:21:40 10/17/02

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On October 17, 2002 at 00:51:45, Mike Byrne wrote:

>http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynews&StoryID=1585437
>
>you gotta love the last sentance - great spin !
>
>"The contest -- postponed last year following the Sept. 11 attacks -- is a
>sequel to Gary Kasparov's 1997 defeat by the supercomputer Deep Blue in New
>York."
>
>Of course it's not true - but once it was published it became TRUE (to at least
>millions of uninformed readers) - the spim masters - you gotta love them.  How
>about it -- Fritz is riding on the coattails of IBM 's Deep Blue ...

The link doesn't work here, but in any case, I don't see anything wrong
with the quoted sequence.

Yes, it's a different computer. Yes, it's a different player. But for
all means and purposes, this *is* the sequel of the DB-Kasparov match.

--
GCP



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