Rolf wrote:bob wrote:Rolf wrote:bob wrote:Again, actual course of events.
kasparov lost
kasparov acted like a jerk
To expect IBM to bend over and grab their ankles to appease him asks far too much. Kasparov made a fortune from IBM playing both matches. It's not like he was dragged to the board, screaming Nooooo! and made to play the match...
And how this does look like in the real world (of chess) outside provincial USA is absolutely uninteresting for the average insensible American. But to the outside, the small rest of this world, this looks different and this is why the USA is seen in offside. Why should I even care for a moment. Ridiculous.
BTW, Bob, you are focussed on money. Honor is more important worldwide. Of course you can win dirtty, but you lose it otherwise.
I am focused on "money"? When money has not been mentioned one time anywhere in this discussion?
I am more focused on the fact that you need some sort of medication change to get you back out of your imaginary world and into the real one. Nobody won anything "dirty". The only "dirty" thing in the 1997 Kasparov-DB match was Kasparov's behaviour.
Why else should the IBM guys have played dirty to win this Prize? Your memory sucks. You have mentioned the big bucks Kasparov should have won through the encounter with IBM.
"Should have?" He _did_ win big bucks. First in 1996, and then again in 1997. He didn't win the match in 1997, but he made more money in a week than most of us make in 5 years... So he didn't exactly "get cheated".
But for your memory as such: you are a smart technician while Kasparov is a genius in chess. You aint no chess master in any respect, you are a patzer like almost all here in CC, me included. Kasparov is cultured and very educated while you are bound to your American English alone and you are also very impolite in your manners. So, just dont try to figure out what Kasparov is like.
I don't have to "try to figure out what Kasparov is like." He got up on a stage and showed the _entire world_ what he is. A jerk. A big one.
As to your science. You dont even understand where the team should have mistreated their client. But that's not your fault since you've never learned what scientific mistreating of your client in an experimental setting really means. I just mentioned it for our readers.
Your imagination is fertile, I give you credit for that. But your reasoning is badly flawed. And has been for over 10 years now on this topic.
Just because Kasparov is as a genius still a human being and not a robot, and because he also has faults caused by his hot blooded temper plus his funny superstition (like many chessplayers), therefore you think you are entitled to call this genius asshole and jerk. But that speaks more about your lack of good breeding or whatever too much American temper. And that speaks against practically the whole DB2 team.
Only in Rolf-land. Not in the real world. Anyone that has ever met any of the deep blue team, and there are _many_ of us, can verify that they are all class acts, highly intelligent, well-mannered, and personable. I've always been quite happy to call them "friends" even if we have not talked in several years now.
That is so basic and it still will be analysed and discussed in future centuries. Tenor will be that the mistreatment of Kasparov by the IBM teamsters caused the players of human chess to avoid too much contact with the screwy tech guys who constantly confused their importance with the power of their hardware. It's insulting mother nature herself if engineers of cars disrespect the beauty of a tiger or if programmers in chess disrespect the human brain of chess masters.
This is not even talked about any longer _today_ much less in future centuries. Nobody cares. Old news. Water under the bridge. History.
Etc.
I only see one person on the planet continually bringing this up. I suspect a medication change would end the subject forever since _nobody_ (emphasis on NOBODY) cares...
