Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:52:28 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. I missed responding to the above. But the _main_ thing Hsu has that is extremely rare, is an understanding of what he did to the Belle Design to make it work on one chip. And then the parallel search code that took a couple of years to design. And then the flaws in the original belle design that were corrected in DB1. And then the flaws in DB1 that were corrected in the last chip iteration. No "skill" there is totally unique. But his "experience" gives him a huge jump on anybody else trying to repeat what he did. > >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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