Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 14:25:25 04/22/05
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On April 22, 2005 at 09:18:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 21, 2005 at 17:14:34, Rolf Tueschen wrote: > >>On April 19, 2005 at 19:16:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >> >>>Nothing in the contract forced IBM to produce anything. Kasparov forgot about >>>that in the negotiations. Had the match ended amicably I'd guarantee you he >>>could have gotten the printouts easily enough. But I wouldn't give him time of >>>day after he went on stage and accused me of cheating. >> >> >>You confuse completely cheating to Kasparov with cheating to science. >Cheating. (verb). To violate existing rules when participating in a contest, >so as to obtain an unfair advantage and influence the outcome. > >Now exactly how/where did the DB guys "cheat science". What "contest" was there >between the DB team (IBM) and "science"??? Thanks for the question. My English sucks. Cheating science = violating methodological fundaments of scientific experiments. Here testing the strength of their machine against the best available human chess player. By tearing him into psycho war they could confuse Kasparov and the team can say they beat him fair, but then they forgot what the whole show was meant for. Again: do you like winning ugly? I thought no. Can winning ugly prove in any relevant issue PROVE something about the chess play of the machine? -- Nope! Certainly not.
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