Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:13:32 04/23/98
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On April 22, 1998 at 23:56:17, Don Gaetke wrote: > >On April 22, 1998 at 22:10:34, Joe McCarron wrote: > >>I wonder what computer and software will be the first Chess World >>Champion. Does anyone want to venture a guess when that will be? >>Evidently IBM has no interest in trying to attain the title for deep >>blue. >> >>in response to your post If we had better data on how well micros do >>against GM's, then the answer to the current poll question would provide >>the answer to your poll question. >> >>It is beyond my unserstandign why we don't have better information on >>how well these computers do against GM's. I mean we all know IBM was >>afraid to play Deep blue against GM's more regularly but these other >>software programs would seem to jump at the chance to butt heads with >>GM's. What is the hold up? > >In DBll's case as with the previous programs DB,DTll, and DT, there has >always been a strong need to keep things "hush, hush", in order to have >the greatest chance to prove the point that IBM had something unique >among computers. It was not advantageous to disclose any performance >than was absolutely neccessary. > >It may yet be that the micro's will threaten the esteem of IBM's not so > minor accomplishment. After all if a PC can beat any top 5 player in >the world in a real match, then it takes away from IBM's SuperComputing >achievement in the eyes of the general public. > >Don > >P.S. CCC is such a breath of fresh air. :-) A couple of points: (1) Until the "IBM" days, information about the internals was readily available. A chapter of a book here, a journal article there... chiptest/deep thought/deep thought 2 and so forth were well written-up. (2) today, there's little chance of a micro beating a top-5 GM in a match. It is unlikely in a single game, unless the match is long enough (and I'm *not* talking about blitz games, there they have a chance)..
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