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: > >[snipped] > >>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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