Author: Ralf Elvsén
Date: 17:18:24 07/23/00
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On July 23, 2000 at 14:28:23, stuart taylor wrote: >On July 22, 2000 at 12:43:44, Andrew Dados wrote: > >>On July 22, 2000 at 12:23:05, Marcos Christensen wrote: >> >>> >>> The original post were deleted by evil forces. But I will repost something, >>>these thing are long time ventiled in internet but no one has courage to post >>>them. I know i will suffer for this but... who cares anyway! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> In this post I said that Never existed Deep Blue, its all an conspiration to >>>make YOU belive that such thing existed some day. >>> >>> >>> 1) We don't know his name, when I thought it was deep blue, no! It was Deep >>>Thought, When I thought it was Deep Blue, wrong again it was Deeper Blue, or >>>Deep Blue II. >>> 2) We don't know how many nps it performs, when I believe it was 8M. NO! It >>>was 2M. When I accept it was 200M, wrong again, it was 1Billion >>> 3) When it loses it because some arcane macro expansion bug or better >>>communication breakdown. >>> 4) It is supposed to have an author, if is not the case that we will discover >>>later that it assembled itself, but he never manifests. >>> 5) The logs files are some kind of hierogliphes, no one knows how many ply >>>it searched looking at the logs. Surely a phd work! >>> 6) There was a deep blue junior that played like gnuchess. But was some kind >>>of crippled version, so does not count! >>> 7) It looks like is there a book somewhere, but no one is able to read (only >>>two persons can, in fact). >>> 8) There were a promise of a Deep Blue card but... >>> 10) No one never saw deep blue. They only saw a monitor. >>> So I belive that this is a case of Internet Hoax! A bunch of GMs locked in >>>a room played Kasparov. Prove me wrong!! >>> Deep Blue never existed, is a internet hoax like Good Times virus. >>> >>> Kind Regards >>> Marcos >> >>FYI: Good Times virus is not a hoax (thanks to MS Outlook, as most email >>viruses): http://www.msnbc.com/news/432208.asp?cp1=1#BODY >> >>-Andrew- > >I was wondering, since this post seems to have brought quite some attention, if >Marcos is saying something which is plausible.As I can't understand all his >technical(?) conepts, and one or two people seem to be answering seriously etc. > Can it really be possible that it (DB) was all a hoax? such a claim seems to >defy reality and human nature and common sense to the extreme! >S.Taylor First I thought it was a not-so-subtle parody of the DB-bashers. I don't know if this is true :) Ralf
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