DanHeisman wrote:
Don't know if anyone is interested, but I worked at both the
Kasparov-Deep Blue matches, and the inventor of UNIX (and computer
chess program Belle), Ken Thompson, was hired to watch Deep Blue's
monitor as it analyzed.

Hired by whom?

After the second game, when the controversy
broke out, Thompson was asked if Deep Blue could have cheated. His
reply, and I am paraphrasing, was "Not only did Deep Blue analyze Be4
before it played it, but so far it has analyzed every move before it
played it."

You must be joking. This shads very little light on the issue.

So unless one wants to call one of the world's most famous computer
scientists a liar (and Thompson was not an IBM employee), then Deep
Blue did not cheat.

No need to make such preposterous logical (false) implications.

- Dan Heisman
www.danheisman.com

Thank you for adding the link to your page.
I like it. It gave me an idea for rgcm (which
may be a topic for another thread, on rgcm).

Regards,

Wlod