Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:51:54 01/18/00
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Let's suppose the worst. IBM decided to cheat. Now, folks like Anand and Karpov are not going to risk a lifetime ban by doing something illegal. So it would pretty much have to be a lower-eschelon player. [Well, they could have crammed RJF into that box, but he would have been deathly afraid of a sinister plot, I'm afraid -- so I think we can rule that out also]. So what are we left with? How do you cheat against the world's best player (by a landslide?)??? You have some lower level GM who can be tempted and yet will *never* spill the beans (hmm -- it seems it would take millions to do that, but what if he put the money in a Swiss bank account and decided to write a book... Sounds a bit risky doesn't it) In short the cheater theories are idiotic. It does not work. Even if you could somehow pull it off, you would be sneaking in some high school track star to run against Michael Johnson. And then taking the ENORMOUS risk that for the rest of his life, he would keep his mouth shut. It's ludicrous. Insanely, bizarre. I can't imagine how such a foolish expression can even escape the lips of any intelligent, thinking person. But forget all that, and suppose that you somehow manage to have a very clever human (maybe we get a 2600GM who hates GK's intestines) to participate. The human says "Rxb2" and the computer says "a4." Whom do you believe? The GM can't outplay Kasparov -- we already know that. I will admit that having a super-GM in cahoots with Deep Blue *would* make a stronger pair -- if you had a few months to form a workable system and a few hundred games. But the risk is so enormous that only a great fool would believe an image conscious company like IBM would try a foolhardy thing like that. In short, I lose respect for any person who says they believe in that hokey "conspiracy" theory.
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