Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:40:07 11/21/00
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On November 21, 2000 at 07:38:25, Pham Minh Tri wrote: >Hi everyone, > >IBM said that after tournament with Kasparov, Deep Blue would return to normal >work and contribute to some fields like finance, medicine, education, molecular >dynamics problem and so on. However I hardly believe that DB technique could be >useful to those fields, at least in a direct way. Today chess technique turns >into a very specific one in the way of its searching, organizations of database >and knowledge. This is almost different from techniques of any other field. As a >result, besides chess and ad, DB chess technique would be useless. > >This is my thought only and I will be happy if someone could show me some >evidence that DB and its technique have contributed successfully to other fields >(and my hobby of computer chess would be useful for more people than the chess >enthusiasts and me :-) ). > >Pham There statement was made on the basis of "deep blue the SP-2". And in that regard it was correct, since SP-2's are used around the world in high-performance computing applications. That's a very "loose" definition of DB, of course. DB the "software" had nothing to do with anything but chess. DB the special-purpose hardware chip also only played chess. It was just a clever bit of marketing...
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