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Subject: Re: Was the question to difficult??

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:04:22 01/19/00

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On January 19, 2000 at 05:24:19, george petty wrote:

>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 ?.


Nope.  The charge was based on the fact that according to Berliner "Cray Blitz
played a move that _no_ computer would play."  Ken Thompson discovered that
Belle would play that move.  Crafty today will play that move.  And in front
of a half-dozen people, Harry Nelson had Cray Research restore the exact program
we used in that round (they did a backup every night) and that version played
that exact same move, with the same time taken, etc.

How would _you_ evaluate that?  "Wait for more facts, I am sure"???



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