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Subject: Re: Was the question to difficult??

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:54:46 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 15:35:06, george petty wrote:

>
> Tom, I think there still too many open questions out there that we do not know
> the answers to yet. Now do you really think he is a idiot (and a jerk)? You
> being a programmer, and having a top program, do you think some of his logic
> could have some possibilty, that something fishy may have occured? Right now
> I don't know, and I question, what do we know are the real facts, not opinions.
> I still think if I.B.M. had came out with the printouts first, there would not
> be so much distrust of I.B.M. or Kasparov having any grounds to cry. Just a
> thought.  But to keep an open mind and watch.  I think the TRUTH will come out
> sometime with all these outstanding minds, looking everything so close.


I think if IBM had produced the printouts Kasparov would have _still_ tried
the same excuses.  "they doctored them to say what they wanted".  "They had
no 'chain of evidence' to make sure they were observed at all times."  Etc.

If someone wants an excuse, they can _always_ manufacture an excuse.  Whether
it makes technical sense or not.



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