Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:28:54 01/21/00
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On January 21, 2000 at 15:58:23, Amir Ban wrote: >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 Finger Dlugy on ICC. He even put it in his finger notes: 2: First Grandmaster to officially work on the team to improve Deep Blue ( 1990-1991), and the only grandmaster to ever serve as U.S. Chess Federation President ( 1990-1993) As far as Byrne goes, he was helping me in the early to middle 80's, analyzing games by Cray Blitz and sending me detailed annotations (all via email). I am unfortunately at home, and my copy of Hsu's book is at the office. I think he mentioned the GMs that helped, and I am sure that I have overlooked at least one. If I am not mistaken, I believe that they even contacted Roman at one point, although he didn't have time to get involved IIRC. This was certainly discussed at all the ACM events during the 90's... the point being I doubt IBM claimed that they had only one GM (Joel) helping, then later changed that to four when they were caught. They were quite honest at several points about getting GM involvement... I can't see them suddenly changing and denying what was known by too many people... And I might be wrong about Roman after thinking about it.... it is possible that conversation was with Bill Lombardy instead... but it was several years ago when Lombardy was playing actively on ICC and chatted daily... so don't hold me to either of those... Dlugy/Byrne are certainties... I will look this up in his book Monday and post when...
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