Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 15:42:27 04/01/01
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On April 01, 2001 at 11:00:11, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 31, 2001 at 21:13:22, Torstein Hall wrote: > >>I do not think IBM stand to loose anytihing. The big public has forgotten that >>Deep Blue ever existed! Anyway, I feel the marketing value of DB is low nopw, so >>perhaps someone with a few extra bucks to spare can buy DB now? >> >>Torstein >> >>Was it really a monster playing chess named DB? > > >I think you are _way_ wrong. I just got back from a visit to my home >town with a population of about 1,500 people. I wore a T-shirt that Compaq >sent me (they took Crafty + an alpha, to the Linux expo, and let anyone play >it). The shirt had "I survive the compaq computer chess challenge" on the >back. Several people asked me "hey, how would your program do against IBM's >monster?" > >People remember deep blue. Because _I_ didn't mention it at all. If you ask >100 random people about the best chess player, human or machine, more people >will remember the name "deep blue" than "kasparov". Exactly. So if they lose a match they might lose a market share and a lot of 'deep blue' quotes. The possible market share they might lose is worth 37 billion at wall street and it's worth a lot of PR too. This only strengthens my believe that we will NEVER see again deep blue play. Also i'm very sure that they don't just allow anyone to play under the name 'deep blue'.
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