LG> I think the 'puter won, and Kasparov's assessment that 
 LG> the program was designed especially to beat his style 
 LG> of play and wouldn't hold up in a -real- tournament is 
 LG> probably right on the money.
 LG> I'd like to see IBM offer that computer up to a 
 LG> tournament style match now with three to four 
 LG> grandmasters. Then... IBM will have something to brag 
Perhaps the ideal solution is not for IBM and its programmers 
to know which Grandmasters
are going to show up at such an avent eg it could be kept secret,
in that way they cant prepare or adjust Blue to destroy the specific styles
of the Gms in question as they did to Gary. 
  
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