Author: Keith Evans
Date: 11:24:34 07/04/03
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On July 04, 2003 at 08:44:42, ludicrous wrote: >If a super strong program like Ruffian was taken back in the early 80's in the >form of a 3.0 Ghz PC, with a chessbase interface, about how much would a chess >fanatic back then be willing to pay (including the PC) for it? > >Just a thought. Wasn't the Fredkin award established in 1980? If this computer and program could only play chess and not be used for something like bomb design, then you could expect it to be worth at least what the outstanding prizes were worth which is at least $100,000. Comparisons to Deep Blue aside, I would expect such a thing to perform really well against humans in 1980 because it would take the GMs by surprise. I think that this establishes a minimum price anyways. If you could present such a machine to a top GM then you might fetch more if they were convinced that they could gain a competitive advantage with the machine and win prize money. Note: $100,000 in 1980 is worth about $220,000 today.
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