Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:19:41 11/18/03
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On November 17, 2003 at 22:15:17, margolies,marc wrote: >Hi Martin (btw i love your checkers prog) > > I think Gari was very correct to dress down the Match Arbiter, Albert Vassar, >regarding the conditions of game 2. >a> it is the Arbiter's Responsibility to ensure that the playing conditions are >correct-- and as Seirawan pointed out--- discomforts are only suffered by the >Human side because the Machine 'feels nothing.' >b>Since the Technology was part of the match, the machine should have suffered a > time penalty for operator error, in my opinion. >c> MOST IMPORTANTLY, it shows that arbiter Vasser never put on the stupid X3D >goggles to look at the board! What kind of arbiter at a chess match in virtual >reality cannot see the board ever! This is the rudest hoax I can imagine. You _can_ see the board without the glasses. It looks a little blurred because of the two interlaced frames, but you can see the board just fine. Seeing the colors is even easier. BTW this is _not_ a "virtual reality" setup. This is just a 3-d graphical display. Virtual reality is something else entirely. >Morever, In game 1 when I saw some of the TV coverage, Vassar just sat in a >chair where he could not observe anything-- and I did not see a pair of the >stupid glasses supplied to him either. He looked rather funny to me, like the >character comedian Chris Elliot played in the movie "13 Ghosts," and he only >needed a fake claw hand to complete the comedy. >Of course Gari would only complain because he lost (and this does Look like sour >grapes) but had Gari won, would this Arbitorial Malfeasance have caused >considerable injury to necessitate a Public grievance? >-Marc > The real question is, "had he won, would he have complained so much about the reversed board?" The answer is most likely "no". >
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