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Subject: Re: What Did The Match Referees Do?

Author: Amir Ban

Date: 12:58:23 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...

Speaking for myself, and I had more interest in this than the _entire world_, I
knew about Benjamin's involvement. A while before the 2nd match, I heard about
another Spanish GM, the name Cifuentes rings a bell. Did Byrne really work with
Deep Blue ? Didn't know this, and it sounds illogical, as he was about eighty
years old at the time. Never heard of Dlugy's involvement with DB. I'm not
saying it mayn't be true, but as a representative of the public, I'm hearing of
this only now.

Amir





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