Author: James B. Shearer
Date: 10:03:40 11/12/98
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On November 12, 1998 at 04:34:08, Amir Ban wrote (in part):
>As far as I know no one from IBM has ever commented in public on the cheating
>accusation, or even made a simple denial, or even acknowledged that an
>accusation was made.
>
>It would be news if they even made a simple denial.
The following is in the transcript of the commentary for game 6 (which
can be found at http://www.chess.ibm.com/games/game6/html/comm.txt). It is from
a post game press conference.
(Reporter question: When the computer, Deep Blue took ten
minutes to make any move, was there any hope from my program,
any assistance of any programs, was there any suggestions from
any of the programmers when Deep Blue took longer than shall we
say three minutes or six minutes or whatever that the program,
at the beginning of a particular game?" "
C. J. TAN: Once the clock starts -- the answer, first of all, is
"no." The second thing I would like to emphasize, once the
clock starts, none of us can interfere with the Deep Blue
system itself, and all the rules that are preestablished before
this match and overseen by the arbiter Carol Jarecki and the
committee meded by Monty Newborn, we followed their rules and
in the printouts of several games as requested were given to
the arbiter, Carol Jarecki.
This looks like a simple denial to me.
James B. Shearer
Disclaimer: Although I work for IBM, this is my personal opinion.
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