Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:31:43 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 02:20:09, James Robertson wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 00:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 13, 2000 at 23:07:07, James Robertson wrote: >> >>>On January 13, 2000 at 22:49:11, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >>> >>>>IBM got something from Hsu (publicity) and gave him money to work on DB; >>> >>>Not publicity. Computer knowledge. Nobody (aside from the computer chess >>>community) knows who Hsu is. He could have been replaced at any time and DB >>>would still have continued. >> >> >> >>Not a prayer. He designed _all_ the hardware. He developed the parallel >>search. Etc. Hsu _was_ deep blue, just as he was Deep Thought... > >I find it impossible to believe that he is the only human who is capable of >doing this. Think about this: How long did it take him to become able to do this? At least 12 years. How long would it take someone _new_ to catch up to his skills at this? About 12 years. > >This is a different point. Does going into seclusion for several months change >your style of play? Does it suddenly make you an unknown player? No. It helps >the GMs prepare for the event with new novelties, etc. But a _lot_ about how >they will play at the event can be deduced from their play before the months of >seclusion. > >James > It could. You play QG as white all the time. After 3 months of preparation, you play 1. e4, knowing your opponent has probably been studying your QG openings to findholes. Did not Kasparov play a couple of openings he had _never_ used in public before? Note that I would much have preferred to see DB "rise thru the ranks" like any other GM. But that wasn't my decision. However, Kasparov signed on the dotted line to play the match, because like most of us, he would be willing to try anything since the least he could win was $400,000 IIRC. Pretty good incentive to play. But after things went downhill, he started the complaints. He should look in the mirror, and at his 'team' to find the ones responsible for the debacle. He _agreed_ to every term of the contract. He _specified_ every term of the contract. He bought a used car "as is" and then got pissed when the transmission fell out as he drove it home...
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