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Subject: Re: Tiger against Deep Blue Junior: what really happened.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:22:21 07/26/00

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On July 26, 2000 at 04:30:42, Jason Williamson wrote:

>So, is Hsu going to release a Deep Thought commercial program with some sort of
>Hardware card, simular to the ChessMachine of old?
>
>I can see some sort of marketing scheme where you can buy differnt version with
>more chips on it, the 1x, 2x, 4x cards ect.  Hmm, would it be considered a micro
>still then?  I guess so, since other programs (ie the Chessmachine) that used
>hardware were.
>
>Jason


I think that as of right now, DB is MIA and will continue to be so.  Hsu had
aspirations of building one 15x faster.  However Kasparov declined to agree
to play a third match assuming he could find sponsors and then build the
machine.  So with the chicken-and-egg problem unsolved, I think he has moved
on to other things, period...

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