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Subject: Re: Kasparov's manager answers Hsu

Author: James Robertson

Date: 19:06:31 01/14/00

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On January 14, 2000 at 22:01:34, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 14, 2000 at 21:42:48, James B. Shearer wrote:
>[snip]
>>        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).

Only person on earth to be hired and provided with enough money to do it.

James

>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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