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Subject: Re: Was the question to difficult??

Author: george petty

Date: 02:24:19 01/19/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 23:32:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 18, 2000 at 19:11:09, george petty wrote:
>
>>On January 18, 2000 at 18:42:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 18, 2000 at 18:19:48, george petty wrote:
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>Not nearly so unfair as to take the group that built a chess machine that
>>>did what no other has come close to doing, and right after they accomplish what
>>>we _all_ were saying was impossible, to accuse them of 'cheating' to do this,
>>>was simply _very_ ugly.  So how is my suspecting that he would have found other
>>>things to complain about worse than what he did in the _first_ place.  No
>>>evidence.  Just got his tail kicked and then resigned in a drawn position that
>>>he overlooked.  And he accused deep blue of cheating?  :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> They could have been doctored up, we don't know yet.
>>>
>>>There you go...  right out of Kasparov's mouth.  Always assume the DB guys
>>>cheated...
>>
>>
>>How did you get that out of my statement?
>
>
>
>Quite easy.  I don't know that you are not a thief.  I don't know that you are
>not immoral.  I don't know that you are a complete idiot.  I don't know a lot
>of things about you.  And I _do_ _not_ make those claims, either, do I?
>
>_that_ is the difference.  Saying "we don't know yet" is the same thing as
>saying "there might be something fishy here..."
>
>>
>>I said WE DON'T KNOW YET.
>>
>>Do you know something the rest of us don't know?
>
>
>Apparently a lot in some cases...
>
>
>>
>>Bob we all have opinions.  But we are trying to get to the FACTS.  I repeat
>>do you have some FACTS that rest of the world does not have?
>>
>
>Yes.  I have seen the logs. I have seen DB play games OTB.  I know all of
>the people involved.  They have _never_ cheated before.  I know a little
>about Kasparov.  I know that he moved a piece and then took it back, and
>was caught on video (against Polgar.)  So Kasparov is a proven cheater,
>The DB guys are not.  Those are a _lot_ of facts.  And _none_ of them suggest
>that the DB guys would do _anything_ to possibly wreck their reputations..
>
>absolutely nothing...
>
>
>
>
>>
>> never assume Kasparov just prepared poorly and screwed up as a
>>>result.
>>>
>>
>>
>>I'm not taking anything for granted without FACTS and PROOF.
>>
>
>IMHO you are taking a _lot_ without proof.  To even suggest that there is
>a possibility of cheating is going way overboard..
>
>
>
>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> "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?
>>>
>>>
>>>Innocent until proven guilty is the reason.
>>>
>>>Nothing more needs be said.
>
>
>no comment about the above???


Just one! Is there anything to the accustion that Cray Blitz was charged with
cheating in the Chess Championship Match in the 1980's ?.



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