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Subject: Re: Was the question to difficult??

Author: george petty

Date: 15:19:48 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 16:54:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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".

 Bob, if they had released them immediately, a lot of these things would never
 have came up. To say that Kasparov would have still tried the same excuses,
 seems to me, as not being very fair and extremly biased against Him.

 They could have been doctored up, we don't know yet.

 "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.

Thats true of both parties. Why should we take one side over the other, until
we get more FACTS and not OPINIONS?




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