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“When signing a contract, you always have to read the
fine print. When people ask me if IBM cheated, no, they just
a 2017 interview with Google’s DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, it seems that Kasparov has somewhat refined his argument, saying that “When signing a contract, you always have to read the fine print. When people ask me if IBM cheated, no, they just bent the rules in their favour. They followed the letter but not the spirit of the agreement.” It seems almost sad, and somewhat pitiable, how passionately Kasparov stands by his convictions two decades after his humbling loss – but he may actually have a point.
bent the rules in their favour.”
BEATING GARRY KASPAROV
BEATING GARRY KASPAROV
Garry Kimovich Kasparov is considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time. But the Russian grandmaster, despite his incomparable genius, is not a man without controversy. In 1993, Kasparov was the reigning world champion of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation (FIDE), but he had grown frustrated with the organisation’s pedantic bureaucracy and seemingly arbitrary changes in the code of conduct for players. In what he later described as the biggest mistake of his career, as it caused great disunity in the chess community, Kasparov broke away from FIDE to create a rival chess body called the Professional Chess Association (PCA), declaring irreconcilable differences in opinion and even accusing the FIDE of corruption.
When considering this erratic and somewhat stub- born behaviour, Kasparov’s infamous claims that the IBM Deep Blue team cheated to win against him in 1997, suddenly seem a little less credible. But 20 years later, in
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