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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - DBII didn't win a single game!!

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:17:46 04/28/05

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On April 28, 2005 at 22:01:24, chandler yergin wrote:

>On April 28, 2005 at 20:30:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On April 28, 2005 at 15:17:13, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 28, 2005 at 14:12:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hsu didn't win.  Deep Blue "won".
>>>
>>>
>>>No.
>>>
>>>1. DBII lost in game one. Very badly. Kasparov's superior chess!
>>>
>>>2. Then Kasparov gave up a drawn game. He was very confused.
>>>
>>>3. Then three draws.
>>>
>>>4. Then Kasparov threw another game. He was no longer in the match since the
>>>second game...
>>>
>>>So, where DBII WON a single game?
>>
>>The _official_ history of the match has DB winning rounds 2 and 6, losing round
>>1, and drawing the rest.  What part of that is confusing?  If you want to play
>>word games and say that the 1-0 result in round two means black lost rather than
>>that white won, fine.  In round 1 DB lost, Kasparov didn't win.
>
>Could not the same thing be said about Game 6?


That was my point.  That was Rolf's claim in fact.  It works both ways.  But
whether DB won a game, or Kasparov lost the game, the final result is _exactly_
the same...




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