Author: Amir Ban
Date: 12:02:18 08/19/98
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On August 19, 1998 at 14:20:58, Ed Schröder wrote: >>I attended Feng-hsiung Hsu's talk on Deep Blue at Hot Chips 10, and >>asked a few questions afterwards. He described the chip and its >>performance. > >>Here's what he said: > >[ impressive stuff snipped ] > >>Hsu is negotiating with IBM for rights to the chip, and plans to >>commercialize it. > >Maybe we the chess community should help Hsu and sent IBM a petition >signed by a few thousand Internet people? > >People with a home page (ICD, Gambit Soft, ChessBase, me) can put >the petition on their web-sites so people can sign? > >Silly idea? > No, just hopeless. Hsu's estimate at the PR value of Deep-Blue (2 billion $) is about right. The potential damage of the thing playing again is huge. I guess if Hsu gets too persistent with this, IBM may pay him a few million $ just to drop it. Amir >Well, I want that thing :-) > >- Ed - > > >>David Fotland
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