Re: 1st Season Terminator TSCC - Queen's Gambit - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

"PV" <pv+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> David Johnston <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>So...maybe that isn't what happened.  Remember this is the buildup to
>>the computer being stolen and the inventor murdered.  Perhaps the
>>murderer's plan requires the computer to lose the match, so he just
>>disconnected it and put in a losing move.
>
> Or maybe the turk II sucked badly enough at chess not to know to resign.
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If TurkII was designed to understand 'resign' as a valid option, its 
evolutionary form, Skynet, never would have built the time machine in the 
first place.  The existence of the time machine is proof that the sentient

being, Skynet, is never interested in giving up when all hope is lost. 
Even 
if TurkII knew that it would lose in 2 more moves, it could still have
been 
hoping for a power outage or for the other computer to resign first or for

some other 'miracle' ending.