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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