Author: Will Singleton
Date: 21:01:01 10/12/99
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On October 12, 1999 at 21:07:15, Ratko V Tomic wrote: >> 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). I agree that every programmer would like to match his program against GM's and other high-quality opponents. But you have to understand that IBM provided a very valuable (and highly unusual) service by employing some chess programmers for several years, spending mucho shareholder money in the process. Not an event likely to be repeated. When they reached their goal, they stopped. Mission accomplished. Nothing ruthless about it, rather, much to the contrary. The business world operates according to market forces, in the main. Very fair, once you understand the rules. Notwithstanding the above, if Kasparov had understood the rules of the game, he might have had his rematch. He demonstrated quite a remarkable lack of insight, and deserves nothing from IBM. I also think that there will be a Deep-Blue Jr. version released in the near future, and that it has good prospects. Will
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