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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - Feng Hsu Let's start with the Rules

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 09:07:19 04/23/05

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On April 22, 2005 at 19:18:55, chandler yergin wrote:

>       Rule Number 13 is quite revealing..


I never heard about the rule 13 - indeed it's an incredible thing to digest. The
team of IBM could interfere, when it was their move, to the hardware, i.e. the
hash-relevant parts of the machine IF they saw - with the help of friendly GM
contact, that DBII was trying to play a nonsense move where Kasparov could have
had certain advantages! My interpretation of that rule is that IBM was allowed
to break DBII's thoughtprocess and then continue with a fresh attempt and
because of time management reasons they could have forced the machine to play
something, the machine normally would never have played. To me now the positions
Kasparov had in mind are completely explanable. If there was a human influence
on the machine, it was even allowed by the rules, here rule 13! Unbelievable.
Now I don't understand why Kasparov complained at all! Because what he suspected
was absolutely within the rules.



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