Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 11:59:09 10/12/97
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On October 12, 1997 at 13:42:26, Rajen Gupta wrote: >If IBM is a wise company then it should start selling Deep Blue as a >commecial programme for PCs and Macs. Nowadays with the microprocessors >being so powerful(expected to reach 450-500MHz next year)and hard drives >of 8Gb and more as standard, the huge opening books and massive >positinal as well tactical knowledge of Deep Blue should make it a truly >formidable programme, a lot stronger than today's leaders Fritz5 and >Rebel 9.IBM after all does have a software division which sells PC games >and other leisure titles, and i'm sure that deep blue would certainly >become one of their best selling titles which could be marketed in 2 >versions- one for the mass market like chessmaster 5000 and the other >for the serious chess players like fritz 5 and Rebel 9.(They will >recover all their investment in OS 2 Warp at least!) > >What do others think of this idea? My checkbook is ready. I would even appreciate a dedicated machine module for the Tasc Smartboard with a RISC processor and maybe 4 chess processors. If they could make them cheaply enough, maybe 16 like son of DB. ( I won't use their name in deference to Amir) A PC version with 1 or 2 chess processors on an add-in board could be called Baby Blue. I'm not sure what it has to do with Warp, but I would like an OS/2 version. As far as I know they still have a billion-dollar a year revenue stream from Warp. How much they've invested, however, I don't know, but I suspect that the profits from even a best-selling game wouldn't even come close to making a dent. kp
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