Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 15:37:51 04/24/05
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On April 24, 2005 at 18:13:16, Mike Byrne wrote: >Sam Sloan has been proven to make fact out of fiction. Perhaps his notorious >example is hwen he broadcasted over the internet the death of Peter Leko. If >you want to go bed at night that whatever Sam Sloan writes should be presumed as >100% fact -- God Bless You. Mike, you cannot expect that non-professional writers on the internet have the same cautiousness than maybe news agencies like Reuters or AP. At least it wasn't meant to be a defamation against Leko. See, in Austria the famous pianist Gulda came up with the message of his own death and then he went to give a concert. This is NOT a point of any relevance. The same, if Kasparov makes some naive steps in politics - then this has no great relevance either. But just to give an example for a relevant story: the treatment of Kasparov during the event in 1997 was wrong because it came from scientists during an experiment where they wanted to find out how good their machine could play chess. That should be tested against the best human player. As a matter of fact you can't find out it if you inspire confusion and suspicions in your human opponent. That should be self-evident. No matter how mad or impolite this player should behave himself. The moment you don't try to change the situation you have no longer interest in your experiment. As to Sam Sloan, I would add - as a European - that Sam is a good example for American Free Speech, certainly NOT for the idea that he's always right in all his positions. But don't we all miss certain truths at times? Why kicking the guy who's not even present here in CCC? He's not a VIP. Sam is one of our kind.
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