Author: Amir Ban
Date: 15:51:25 10/12/99
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On October 11, 1999 at 21:25:30, Manuel Rodriguez Blanco wrote: > snip >Rebel Company about the accusations: > > >We were not aware of any restriction that playing against Deep Blue Junior was >forbidden. Deep Blue Junior was there and we took the opportunity to find out >more about this program. The result was posted as NEWS no more no less and we >don't have (nor had) any intention to include Rebel's victory over Deep Blue >Junior in our advertisements. > > >We can't confirm the "one second" time control of Deep Blue Junior. Deep Blue >Junior indeed played on a "one second" time control using its default time >control but raising the time control caused Deep Blue Junior to think a lot >longer (up to 10-15 seconds). > This point is important, and I didn't see it discussed. If so, Hsu is misinformed about what features were made available to users of DBjr, and Rebel played a version that was much stronger than he thought. I don't remember if they played equal time controls, but if they did, it may well be that the contest was fair or close to fair (we need to assume that the DBjr server was not overloaded, which to me seems likely, because it was hardly used intensively at the stations I saw in Paderborn). I wouldn't consider Rebel beating DBjr a surprise. Even assuming full-DB to be the equal of Kasparov (doubtful), DBjr should be much weaker, and not more than Rebel. Besides, isn't Rebel's record against rated players better than DBjr's ? I don't know the statistics, but I got the impression that DBjr's record is not too good. I think it's pretty low to say or imply that Ed played DBjr for cheap publicity. Obviously he did that out of curiosity. It would make better business sense to concentrate on the WCCC rather than play improvised games in the hall, but people who are curious do what is intersting, not important. It's clear from Hsu & Campbell's letter and the clarification from Friedel that they are not curious in the least, and that they don't give a damn about their peers respect. That's a good enough reason not to respect them, and I don't. Amir
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