Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 23:03:10 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. > This goes back to the long discussion about ponder=on/ponder=off with Crafty. Who better knows how that affects the engine than I do? Nobody. Ditto for the DB Jr device at Paderborn. Hsu and group _made_ the thing. Don't you think that _they_ would know how it worked? >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). Kasparov doesn't deserve a rematch. Were I in a position to make that decision at IBM, the answer would be not just no, but hell no. Shirov or Anand or Short or Karpov or Kamsky or you-name-him, but no Kasparov. If kasparov wanted a rematch, he ought to have kept his mouth shut with respect to his ridiculous cheating allegations. He tried every excuse he could think of, and burned his bridges behind him.
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