Author: Uri Blass
Date: 21:28:42 04/01/01
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On April 01, 2001 at 18:42:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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. I do not believe it. Bruce explained that your math is wrong. Uri
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