Author: Steven Edwards
Date: 12:32:10 04/06/05
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On April 06, 2005 at 11:50:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 05, 2005 at 19:36:11, Ted Summers wrote: >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2309 >Hardly worth the read. Especially the part about "show me the printouts". I'd >be happy to show them to him, since I have them all here on my laptop. Of >course he could have them as well if he'd just take the time to download them. I am in full agreement with Bob on this point. It is unbecoming to a world champion for him to baselessly and persistently make claims of fraud without an honest examination of alternative explanations. >But that would eliminate his only "complaint". Kasparov also complains that the results in question are irreproducible due to the dismantling of DB. Perhaps so, but this is a concern which could of and should of have been made known prior to said disassembly. >I wonder if he has any idea how completely foolish he looks when he makes that >statement over and over, that they would not show him the output??? Oh, I think he knows. But he also knows that only a very small minority of his audience could fully understand the significance of a traditional iterative A/B searcher log output. Even if he reviewed the log, he could claim fakery. Ridiculous, of course, but how many could effectively rebut him in front of the vast majority of chessplayers? On the other hand, it could conceivably be possible that a GM chessplayer working in secret with a very highly skilled chess programmer could produce a fake A/B log for DB that might fool a lot of people. But not everyone. And any fake log would have to be consistent with real log files. Would any sane person at IBM take the risk of detection of even a very clever fraud? That is simply unbelievable. Perhaps there is a lesson here to be learned for chess program authors. Would it not be worthwhile to optionally produce a real time search narrative, even for a traditional iterative A/B searcher, that would eliminate all doubt?
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