Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:05:02 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 They used a powerful computer, and added some special hardware. After the match, they took the hardware out and sold the computer. The computer is used to do things that powerful computers are used to do. That's all they mean. DB's purpose was to sell these computers. bruce
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