Author: Amir Ban
Date: 23:39:16 01/22/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 01:28:17, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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." > He was covering the event for the New-York Times. Amir >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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