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Subject: Re: Kasparov's manager answers Hsu

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:01:34 01/14/00

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On January 14, 2000 at 21:42:48, James B. Shearer wrote:
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>        I agree with Robertson.  I don't see much evidence that Hsu has any
>extremely rare skills.

Only person on earth ever to design a deep-blue chess machine capable of 200M
NPS (about 1000 times faster than the next best thing at the time).  Seems
pretty rare to me.  Hitech and other efforts along those lines were not
competitive with Deep Blue.

> It's not like many similar attempts with equivalent
>backing failed miserably.  Also Hsu's project didn't match the projections in
>his 1990 Scientific American article.

It did beat the best human player on earth, probably the best who ever was.  I
know I was impressed.





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