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Subject: Re: two slightly off-topic questions

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 03:02:48 07/01/01

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On June 30, 2001 at 10:28:27, Jonathan Lee wrote:

>On June 29, 2001 at 07:25:06, martin fierz wrote:
>
>>hi,
>>
>>i was just wondering about 2 things:
>>
>>1) how much did IBM pay for 'deep blue'?
>>2) how far from being solved is othello?
>>
>>cheers
>>  martin
>On question no. 2, do you mean othello is on (60 or a little more ply) level
>immediately?  If you mean 60+ ply, then I haven't heard it solved yet (not to my
>knowledge).
>
>This reminds me the movie, "Wargames" (or "War Games") where at the end of the
>movie, the military computer goes berzerk with tic-tac-toe and then says "Would
>you like to play a game of chess?".

Nope. It goes beserk on the game global terminal nuclear war. It does suggest
chess, since the first game is silly because "the only not loosing move seems to
be no move"

Tony

>Jonathan (138 message)



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