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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - Feng Hsu

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 14:03:17 04/23/05

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On April 22, 2005 at 17:25:25, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>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.

I agree!
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