Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 08:18:17 04/02/01
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On April 02, 2001 at 00:28:42, Uri Blass wrote: >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. Even if you do not believe it, would you take the risk as IBM manager? >Uri
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