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Subject: Re: What Did The Match Referees Do?

Author: José Antônio Fabiano Mendes

Date: 11:23:53 01/21/00

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On January 20, 2000 at 22:45:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 20, 2000 at 14:01:57, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>
>>Amir,
>>
>>Here is some more information for you. The journalist in question is
>>Jeff Kisseloff. At the time I spoke with him in email he was very
>>cooperative. If you want his email address I will tell you. He is
>>also mentioned on the official IBM pages. Here is the article.
>>
>>Ed
>>
>
>
>Now there was a balanced and unbiased bit of reporting.  :)
>
>He starts off with false facts.  I'll give one and let it go as garbage.
>IBM didn't claim to only have "one GM" working on DB.  The _entire world_
>knew that Robert Byrne, Joel Benjamin, and Maxim Dlugy worked on the
>project.  This was _never_ a secret. Except maybe from the closed eyes of the
>guy that wrote this stuff...
>
>no further comments necessary...

The Spanish GM Miguel Illiescas also took part on the project,
he is even quoted as having said that "DB plays like an angel". JAFM



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