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Subject: Re: Kasparov's manager answers Hsu

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:25:59 01/14/00

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On January 14, 2000 at 02:24:00, Alexander Kure wrote:

>On January 14, 2000 at 00:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
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>
>>Once again, DB did _not_ lose to any computer.  It never played a computer.
>>Deep Thought hardware was used in Hong Kong and lost to fritz in 1995.  Not
>>Deep Blue.  The Deep Blue 1 processors were not completed until very near to
>>the match date in 1996.
>
>[snipped]
>
>The reason why deep blue *never* lost to any other computer chess programm is
>the simple fact that it was never exposed to play an official game against any
>other computer chess programm. Maybe after some drawbacks such as the loss
>against Fritz in Hongkong 'they' did not want to take the risk of loosing
>another game? I personally dislike the whole concept of deep blue which was only
>designed to play the world champion exclusively.
>
>Greetings
>Alex


It wasnt designed only to play Kasparov.  A conversation with Hsu will convince
anyone of that.  He went to every ACM event he could.  However, Hsu was the
designer.  There are at least 10 levels of management _above_ him that run the
company...  and they made decisions that he (and others) didn't like.



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