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

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 11:35:04 07/26/00

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On July 26, 2000 at 14:22:21, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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...

Did Kasparov want this 15x thing to prove it self against other
opponents before he would grant the match?

Best Regards,
Chris Carson



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