Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 11:10:49 02/25/02
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On February 25, 2002 at 13:17:22, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 25, 2002 at 10:35:00, Slater Wold wrote: > >>I was recently in contact with Hsu, where I asked him if there was anyway that >>he would either a.) sell the technology in DB or b.) donate this information to >>someone (Hyatt comes to mind) who would put it to use and keep it safe from >>being commercial use. >> >>Basically he told me he only bought the rights to rematch Kaspy (who refused). >>And to keep IBM off his back, if he decided to make a Shogi engine. Period. No >>other reasons. He will never sell/commercialize/donate/share his information. >>Ever. >> >>What a terrible, terrible dissappointment. > >Not disappointment for me >I guess that the thing is simply not strong enough. > >It is not clear if the result of deeper blue against kasparov is better than the >result of Rebel against van wely if you remember that van wely trained a lot >against rebel before the match when kasparov could not train against something >similiar to deeper blue. > >Uri In addition to that, Kasparov probably would have won the match had he played like his normal self. The victory for computer chess wasn't nearly as significant as the masses think. Kasparov played pretty bad by his (then) standards. Russell
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