Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 22:28:17 01/22/00
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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: >>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... >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 Byrne was very much present at the WCCC in Hong Kong. He was clearly involved with the DB team, he ate dinner with them, and he paid careful attention to their games. I asked someone, I believe Marsland, why he was there, and the answer I got was something to the effect that, "The sponsor specified it." The sponsor being IBM. As an aside, I think that Byrne is a wonderful guy. I spoke with him a couple of times, he was extremely polite when questioned, very thoughtful in his replies, and when he asked me a few questions he managed to convince me that he cared what I had to say, even though he could have no particular reason to care, given that my program finished 17th or something out of 24. bruce
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