Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:23:50 10/19/99
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On October 19, 1999 at 15:35:23, KarinsDad wrote: [snip] >I disagree (sorry Dann). No need to apologize! ;-) >You mention, but do not seriously take into account the >fact that the World had a lot of resources behind them such as other >Grandmasters and computer analysis. Does not matter at all, if run fair and square by voting. >It was Kasparov versus the World after all, >not Kasparov versus the average of the world. Not according to the rules of the process. It was to be selected by vote (from anyone who cared to). Hence, the world team's only role was that of advisor. Most people would not even comprehend the world team's advice (on average). Consider, you have some computer problem. A team of 4 experts diagnoses what they think the problem is. Then, we take a poll of the office workers. They can choose either to follow or ignore the adivce of the experts. Whatever the office workers pick is the repair step we will take. On the other hand, we have the best and most skilled repairman in the world. He makes his diagnosis and does whatever he likes. Who's going to fix the computer? >It is a fact that move 51 was >ballot stuffed to pick a questionable move and move 58 was voted on without the >analysis of the team whose input was more valuable than any other resource. >Microsoft messed up more than once and that is a fact. Whether the World would >have won or drawn is irrelevant. The only relevant thing that most anyone is >going to remember from this game is that MS screwed up and because of that, the >outcome of the game was a farce to most people. Unfortunately. Bungled or not, the outcome was certain before the contest began. If Kasparov had lost, then there would almost certainly have been real cheating of some kind going on (although I am not sure if it is even possible in this case to win by cheating). It's a lame parlor trick. Lame *lame* *Lame* *LAME* !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OTOH, it generated a lot of interest in chess and there were a bunch of genuinely interesting moves and a lot of genuinely interesting analysis. A lot more good came of the contest than I ever imagined possible.
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