Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:23:56 07/20/00
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On July 20, 2000 at 13:44:12, Tom Kerrigan wrote: [snip] >Hsu, Lang, Morsch, and Ed all have incredible history behind them. Hyatt >doesn't. I don't really consider Amir to be a legend (yet) and his name is >easily replaced with a number of others. Kittinger, Stanback, Bruce Moreland, >Christophe, Stefan, Uniakle, de Koening; sorry if I left anybody out. But I >consider any of these guys more impressive than Hyatt. Hyatt has a world championship. Hyatt has many first in computer chess. Bill Wall's chess history page has several entries mentioning his name. For just the Dortmund result, Amir Ban is one of the greatest chess programmers of all time. To me, more impressive (because of the hardware difference) from a programming standpoint than the Deep Blue result (and -- I might ask -- Where are Hsu and Campbell in these lists? Probably ought to be in first place because the chess machine they assembled was [with apologies to Amir] the greatest chess machine ever assembled). Deep Junior on that 8 CPU machine is clearly -- without any logical question -- one of the two or three greatest chess machines assembled in the history of mankind. How can you say Amir is not impressive? I think there may be a teeny-tiny personality clash somewhere in here, but I am probably reading between the lines a bit more than is logical.
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