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Subject: Re: When will books from the DB team be available?

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 10:12:33 07/21/00

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On July 21, 2000 at 13:10:28, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On July 21, 2000 at 12:14:44, Graham Laight wrote:
>
>>On July 21, 2000 at 11:21:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>Not at all.  Hsu was hired by IBM to build a new chess machine that would beat
>>>Kasparov.  The machine was first assembled in late 1995 or early 1996, not too
>>>much before the actual match happened.  Prior to that, all they had was the
>>>deep thought hardware that was still located at Carnegie-Melon university
>>>according to Hsu's book.
>>
>>I've just checked Amazon - there doesn't seem to be anything related to chess
>>available by a "Hsu".
>>
>>Any idea when we'll be able to buy this book, please?
>>
>>-g
>
>Tough to say.  I know of a first cut, and a rewrite.  Perhaps there will be
>major additional changes, perhaps not.  I'm not that familiar with the
>book-writing business.
>
>Dave

For a more frank account of the match, I'd suggest lobbying Joel Benjamin to
publish his book.

Dave



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