Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:43:46 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 13:12:33, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 The problem with Joel is that he doesn't have the technical insight into the background of the machine. He knows what it could do playing chess, and he knows the many suggested evaluation features he requested to make it play better. But he doesn't know much about the underlying architecture, the history of the thing (dating back to chiptest) and so forth. I think that a book by each would be nice complementary works and would likely give a more rounded view of the thing. Of course, there will be cries of 'biased reporting' and there we go again, since Joel did work for IBM on the project...
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