Brad wrote: There's an interview in Sunday's NYT Magazine with Gary
Kasparov.
He criticizes IBM for making such a big thing of Deep Blue beating him in
1997, instead of treating it as a scientific experiment.
I'm sure there is some "sour grapes" in this, and that, had Kasparov won, he
might not have been so dispassionate about it either, but, nonetheless, I
think he is basically right that the sun had already set on IBM, which no
longer was interested in science but only in the bottom line and bullsh-t
advertising.
I guess it's a shame that Gasparov doesn't have a chess-playing son, even if
he didn't have the father's talent, who could challenge Big Blue to a
rematch and launch a war to finish the job destiny had handed him.
Karen
