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Alec Goudreau said in a message to Lawrence Garvin:
-=> Note: Copied from CHESS by WIMM/2 1.31
 LG> I think the 'puter won, and Kasparov's assessment that the program 
 LG> was designed especially to beat his style of play and wouldn't 
 LG> hold up in a -real- tournament is probably right on the money. I'd 
 LG> like to see IBM offer that computer up to a tournament style match 
 LG> now with three to four grandmasters. Then... IBM will have 
 LG> something to brag 
 AG> Perhaps the ideal solution is not for IBM and its programmers  to 
 AG> know which Grandmasters are going to show up at such an avent eg 
 AG> it could be kept secret, in that way they cant prepare or adjust 
 AG> Blue to destroy the specific styles of the Gms in question as they 
 AG> did to Gary. 
That would be a good criteria to have if they want to -truly- test the 
capabilities of the system.
Although based on other things I read about that last match, it appears as if 
Kasparov actually LOST the game, not necessarily that the computer beat him. 
I've not looked at the game score yet, but I hear he was at a significant 
disadvantage early in the game due to some critical personal errors.
lawrence@eforest.houston.tx.us 
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