Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:04:46 06/20/02
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On June 20, 2002 at 14:50:09, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: >On June 20, 2002 at 14:44:46, Osorio Meirelles wrote: > >> >> How much more speed could we have than a PC chip, if there was a >> hardware specifically designed to play chess ? >> >> Wouldn't this make an extreemly powerfull dedicated machine ? >> >> How much does it cost do develop such a Chip ? > > >Multiprocessor, 64-bit [at least], and expensive. But, how much are REAL chess >nuts willing to pay? That question is irrelevant. There are probably one or two people who would play 1 million dollars for a machine that would beat Kasparov. But it would cost 10 million to develop it. The real question is: "How much are the broad masses willing to play for the world's strongest chess machine?" The answer is "Not much." People balk at the cost of ChessMaster! CHESSMASTER -- for crying out loud. They practically give it away. I have seen it online somewhere for $13. You can walk into any computer department that sells software and get it for $30. And people whine about that cost. You might sell computer boards with Hsu's chip on them for $2000, but to how many people? I suspect that not one in ten CCC users would buy it, which means that not one in one million of your average citizen would do so. You have to think about total cost of development compared to total return on investment. That is the real problem and it is also the reason why we don't all have a copy of the Hsu/Campbell chess machine buzzing away on our desk right now.
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