"Famous Hollywood Actor" in "Kasparov vs the Machine?"

[kinnerc]

Folks:

This might be a commonly asked question, but I thought I’d ask it here.

In minute 69 of “Game Over: Kasparov vs the Machine” Garry tells a story of an elevator encounter just after he’d lost the match to Deep Blue.

“I was just here, waiting for the elevator. I met, just for a very brief, you know, ride down, so the 7th floor to the ground floor, a very famous Hollywood actor. Very famous! I recognized him. I smiled. He looked at me. He also recognized me. And, he asked a bit sadly, ‘What have you done?’ I said, ‘Look, I lost a match. It happens. But I’m going to take the stupid machine in the next…in the rematch.’ He said, ‘No, you will not.’ I said, ‘What? I’m going to win the rematch!’ He said, 'No, they’ll not let you play anymore.”

My question is: Who was the very famous Hollywood actor? Does anyone know?

[ChessSpawn]

MY question is, Who was in the darned soda can??!!

[Crume]

@ChessSpawn

MY question is, Who was in the darned soda can??!!

I still think it’s Shahade…with no evidence for it whatsoever…

[DENTONCHESS]

@kinnerc

Folks:

This might be a commonly asked question, but I thought I’d ask it here.

In minute 69 of “Game Over: Kasparov vs the Machine” Garry tells a story of an elevator encounter just after he’d lost the match to Deep Blue.

“I was just here, waiting for the elevator. I met, just for a very brief, you know, ride down, so the 7th floor to the ground floor, a very famous Hollywood actor. Very famous! I recognized him. I smiled. He looked at me. He also recognized me. And, he asked a bit sadly, ‘What have you done?’ I said, ‘Look, I lost a match. It happens. But I’m going to take the stupid machine in the next…in the rematch.’ He said, ‘No, you will not.’ I said, ‘What? I’m going to win the rematch!’ He said, 'No, they’ll not let you play anymore.”

My question is: Who was the very famous Hollywood actor? Does anyone know?

I always thought Garry was a little naive here. IBM did not pay Garry to win.
So the mechanisms that the company took to win the match should have been
expected. It was nothing more than an advertising gimick.

Rob Jones

[ChessSpawn]

@Crume

@ChessSpawn

MY question is, Who was in the darned soda can??!!

I still think it’s Shahade…with no evidence for it whatsoever…

Played too well to be Shahade. As we used to say in CCD–It’s a mystery.

[ChessSpawn]

@DENTONCHESS

@kinnerc

Folks:

This might be a commonly asked question, but I thought I’d ask it here.

In minute 69 of “Game Over: Kasparov vs the Machine” Garry tells a story of an elevator encounter just after he’d lost the match to Deep Blue.

“I was just here, waiting for the elevator. I met, just for a very brief, you know, ride down, so the 7th floor to the ground floor, a very famous Hollywood actor. Very famous! I recognized him. I smiled. He looked at me. He also recognized me. And, he asked a bit sadly, ‘What have you done?’ I said, ‘Look, I lost a match. It happens. But I’m going to take the stupid machine in the next…in the rematch.’ He said, ‘No, you will not.’ I said, ‘What? I’m going to win the rematch!’ He said, 'No, they’ll not let you play anymore.”

My question is: Who was the very famous Hollywood actor? Does anyone know?

I always thought Garry was a little naive here. IBM did not pay Garry to win.
So the mechanisms that the company took to win the match should have been
expected. It was nothing more than an advertising gimick.

Rob Jones

It was a bit more than an advertising gimick. Take a look at amazon.com/Behind-Deep-Blue- … 054&sr=1-3