Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:36:22 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 14:15:41, blass uri wrote: >On July 21, 2000 at 13:41:41, Robert Hyatt 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 >> >> >>I don't know. It was definitely finished as I have an electronic copy of it >>that I proofed for him. I haven't heard anything recently but will try to ask. >> >>It will answer a _lot_ of questions and put a lot of nonsense to rest when it >>does come out. It isn't super-technical, but it has a plethora of details that >>reveal a lot about the machine and its capabilities. > >The only real answer to the question is if Hsu does a Deep blue chip. >This is the only way for him to convince people to believe what he says because >the impression based on watching games and watching the IBM site is different > >I believe that if it can get only 70% against the best commercial at the time of >the release then Hsu can earn money from it. > >I guess that in this case he will find 50,000 buyers if the price is 200$. >I guess that it is enough to cover the cost of it. > >Do you think that one of my assumptions is wrong? > >Uri No... but since we will likely never know, I have my opinion based on a lot of fact. For example, I believe that a Corvette from 1995 will suck the bumper off of a Chevrolet Metro made in the year 2000. Without any need of racing them. Because I know enough about automobiles to be able to compare those two without the need for a race track at all. If we talk about the 1995 corvette vs a 2000 Ford Cobra-R, then it changes. But Hsu has the Corvette. The rest of us have the metros. Nobody has a cobra-R so the competition really isn't necessary, except for the massochist that wants to see the 5 second zero to 60 corvette suck the bumper off of the 20 second zero-to-60 Metro... Some things can be concluded without head-to-head, if you know enough about both.
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