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Subject: Re: My conversation with Hsu.......

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 12:16:16 02/25/02

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On February 25, 2002 at 15:08:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.
>
>That is absolutely the _worst_ reasoning I have ever seen.  Do you also
>guess that when it rains when you have something planned, that the clouds
>have something against you?
>
>It was strong enough to smash computer programs for a long while.  It was
>strong enough to beat kasparov in a 6 game match.  I'll bet _other_ engine
>authors wish theirs was "not that strong"...
>
>IE they didn't win most every ACM event after 1986 because of of luck...
>
>>
>>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
>
>
>There's _still_ quite a jump from van Wely to Kasparov...  And van Wely wasn't
>playing for a $1,000,000 prize either.


I had almost this same exact thing typed, but decided I didn't want to get into
a 30 post arguement with Uri.

Thanks Bob.  :)



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