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Subject: Re: My conversation with Hsu.......

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:17:22 02/25/02

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On February 25, 2002 at 10:35:00, Slater Wold wrote:

>I was recently in contact with Hsu, where I asked him if there was anyway that
>he would either a.) sell the technology in DB or b.) donate this information to
>someone (Hyatt comes to mind) who would put it to use and keep it safe from
>being commercial use.
>
>Basically he told me he only bought the rights to rematch Kaspy (who refused).
>And to keep IBM off his back, if he decided to make a Shogi engine.  Period.  No
>other reasons.  He will never sell/commercialize/donate/share his information.
>Ever.
>
>What a terrible, terrible dissappointment.

Not disappointment for me
I guess that the thing is simply not strong enough.

It is not clear if the result of deeper blue against kasparov is better than the
result of Rebel against van wely if you remember that van wely trained a lot
against rebel before the match when kasparov could not train against something
similiar to deeper blue.

Uri



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