Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 17:57:32 11/06/99
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On November 06, 1999 at 20:51:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 06, 1999 at 20:04:27, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>I do not know why such a big fuss is made about ''how ''deep blue makes its >>moves or whatever-after all its just a supercomputer powered by hundreds of >>regular powerpc chips with the added bonus of having an additional few hundreds >>of chips specially optimised to do chess calculations together with an analysed >>database of every single gm game ever played on this planet. >> >>it is no surprise that it should play so well-the greatest surprise is that >>unlike a true sportsman it refused to give its opponent a return match or allow >>its opponent to play a few test games with it beforehand-but then ibm have never >>been sportsmen. > >It _did_ give kasparov a re-match. They played in 1996 and 1997. But would >_you_ give someone a rematch after they continually claimed you cheated, had >human help, used unfair tactics, etc? _I_ wouldn't. Although a little birdie >tells me that there _will_ be another Kasparov match one day... > This is the second or third time that you've hinted at this. Can you please give more info? --Peter
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