Author: James Robertson
Date: 19:19:16 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 09:31:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. > I don't believe this at all. Look at me or Tom Kerrigan. Both of us, as high school students, have created our own programs from scratch that are _very_ competitive. Plus we started with zero knowledge, and are not working full time. Think how much more capable a person who has graduated from a University is. Find someone who has worked with parallel and/or game computing for 12 years. Hire a professor of parallel architecture and chip design if you have to. In short, dozens of people could have done it. Hsu is not a genius; he is a very skilled workman who did an excellent job. > > > > >> >>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? And they met with brilliant success. > > >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... Did I say anything that contradicts this paragraph? James
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