Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 18:07:15 10/12/99
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> There is _nothing_ wrong with his reporting the results. There is a > _lot_ wrong with keeping them up after being told that this was not > "deep blue junior" with the explanation of what it really was coming > directly from Hsu. > > The original statement was OK. Continuing to make it today is _not_ OK. The problem is that Ed was there while Hsu & Campbell were only told about the conditions. So Ed had seen the program spending 10-15 seconds per move, and knows the setting were changed, which means Hsu is repeating what someone at IBM told him, which obviously was not correct. So Ed has no reson to retract his news item based on statements of the people who were clearly misled (by their own company reps) about the conditions of the games. I wouldn't blame Ed or Hsu & Campbell. It's IBM's PR folks, probably salesmen of some rare wines or some Catholic bishop displaying some relic every 7 years, in their former lives, who are playing this silly hiding game with DB. I think every programmer would be more than happy to match his creation against other strong programs and GMs as much as time allows. Their (IBM PR executives) denial of the rematch to Kasparov was highly unfair and showed the ruthlessness typical of such folks (like Gecco character in the movie Wall Street).
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