Author: Walter Faxon
Date: 14:58:54 01/25/03
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On January 25, 2003 at 17:18:08, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On January 25, 2003 at 16:29:44, Albert Silver wrote: > >>On January 25, 2003 at 15:29:45, pavel wrote: >> >>>I was just browsing the web looking for Computer Chess programming related >>>articles, and than I bumped into this: >>> >>>http://sccs.muldermedia.de/ >>> >>>Quote: >>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>"If ask whether Ferret could crush Deep Blue, my answer was yes, if it was >>>dropped out of an airplane. With the new machine [quad Xeon], it would only need >>>to be dropped five or six stories, which is progress of a sort." >>>(Bruce Morland on CCC) >>> >>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>I never read it on the forum, but it's a good one. :) >> >>It's a twist on a quote by Ken Thompson. Ken Thompson was stopped by government >>officials when embarking to Russia with Belle for the World Chess Computer >>Championship. The officials claimed his machine could be used for other means >>than playing chess. Thompson was adamant that the idea was ludicrous. Finally >>one official asked whether there was no conceivable way it could be used as a >>weapon. He responded that perhaps if it was dropped out of an airplane it might >>kill someone. :-) >> >>My memory of the exact details may be off, but that's as I remember it. >> >> Albert > >I took partial responsibility for the quote in another post, so I'll explain >that I hadn't heard the Thompson quote, in case someone wants to think that I'm >borrowing someone else's words. > >bruce IIRC, Thompson was taking Belle to Russia for an exhibition, not any tournament. His quote about it being dangerous if dropped out of an airplane was made to the author of an article about him in Sports Illustrated. "You could kill someone that way." -- Walter
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