Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 11:36:00 11/09/98
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On November 09, 1998 at 13:50:11, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On November 09, 1998 at 12:39:46, odell hall wrote: > >>You are exactly right! If the match did in fact happen why haven't they >>published the games? The kasparov match is over so they can't fear that kasparov >>will see the games. What other possible motivation for not revealing the games >>other than that it never occured!! > >If this thread is going to start up again, please let it not go down this >particular path. > >When you say that match never occurred, you are saying that a particular person, >namely Murray Campbell, lied to me when I asked him about this match after a >lecture. You are also saying that Feng Hsu lied to Bob in email between those >two. > >Whatever you think about IBM or Deep Blue or any of the rest of this, these guys >don't deserve to be accused of lying. > >I think discussion of those games will be fruitless because we don't have them, >and the details surrounding how they were played are still fuzzy. Any >conclusions drawn from them are only minimally useful in my pesonal opinion. > >The only thing worse than making conclusions from these games is making >conclusions out of thin air, which is the alternative. > >Fact is that the obvious questions about how DB would do against micros can't be >answered. It is only possible to speculate. > >bruce I don't think that is speculation when some one says they defeated a particular opponent without giving any facts. If I said I beat DB 10-0 I think you would want me to give some details. I don't think the DB people are lying. I just don't think they are saying anything meaningful. It would have been best to say nothing.
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