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Subject: Re: Was the question to difficult??

Author: blass uri

Date: 09:53:07 01/19/00

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On January 19, 2000 at 11:14:42, walter irvin 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...  never assume Kasparov just prepared poorly and screwed up as a
>>result.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> "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.
>
>there is something else that needs to be said ,how could deep blue cheat , it is
>imposible .
>1.kasparov is the strongest human chess player (ok maybe fischer)so any human
>they would have used would have been weaker than kasparov or deep blue .

I assume deep blue did not cheat but the fact that kasparov is better than other
humans does not make cheating impossible.

I believe that anand is a weaker player than kasparov and also that Fritz is a
weaker player than kasparov but the team of anand and Fritz is better than
kasparov.

Uri



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