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Subject: Re: A New Deep Blue?

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 13:23:09 04/22/98

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The IBM announcement today is really odd. Is it a challenge
to Kasparov in the form of a marketing claim? Or do they
think something as an extrapolate claim against a one-year
old chess result will result in extra business for them?
Or lastly, is it simply an example of IBM's dreadful collective
Borg-like ego?

Further, no matter the speed of the "front-end" of Deep-Blue,
the VLSI special purpose chips that do the short searches a
few ply out are really the power behind the machine Without
them, IBM's Deep Blue would lose to a number of machines I'd bet.

A truly bizarre announcement.

On April 22, 1998 at 10:47:27, Mark Young wrote:

>I heard that IBM has come out with a 6 billion move a sec. version of
>Deep Blue. Is this true? Is there going to be a rematch that I have not
>heard about? If not why did they come out with a new version?
>
>Im in bed with the flu and have a high fever. So if I did not hear CNN
>right forgive me.
>
>                                         Mark Young



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