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Subject: Re: Deep Blue and the

Author: Peter Hegger

Date: 07:56:40 11/10/98

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On November 09, 1998 at 14:30:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 09, 1998 at 12:39:46, odell hall wrote:
>
>>
>>On November 09, 1998 at 09:21:50, Peter Hegger wrote:
>>
>>>Hello, My name is Deep Blue
>>>
>>>Did I ever tell you about the ten game match I played a few years back?
>>>Well, I played all the leading micros and made a perfect 10-0 score against
>>>them. Wiped them all off the board easily.
>>>What? You want to see the games?
>>>Oh no sorry, I couldn't possibly do that.
>>>You'll just have to take my word for it that it really happened.
>>
>>
>>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 you want to believe that pigs can fly, that there is a free lunch, and that
>this match never happened, go right ahead.  P.T. Barnum had a comment that fits
>really well.
>
>As to why won't they say anything?  After all the obnoxious posts here about
>deep blue and how badly it plays and how lucky it was to beat kasparov and
>how it can't hold a light to todays micros, maybe, just maybe, they don't give
>a damn about what anyone here thinks?  Wouldn't blame them in the least...
>
>Never seen such a bunch of closed minds...  of course when something is closed
>that tightly, it is *very dark* inside...

Quite the contrary.
It is because I am looking at the issue with an open mind that I pose the
question about the games.
For Hsu and Campbell to say that these games were not considered important
enough to record strains credibility.




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