Author: jonathan Baxter
Date: 16:50:27 11/09/98
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On November 09, 1998 at 17:11:48, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>I am not accusing anyone of lying, I was not aware that feng hu personally told >>bob hyatt about the match results. Still the question has yet to be answered why >>haven't the games been revealed? This is a very simple question, If such a match >>between deepblue and the micro's did in fact occur it is a tremendously >>important event and should be published! >> > > >Hsu told me about this privately. He and Murray both have discussed this at >a couple of presentations they have given since the DB match. however I doubt >they will say much here as it would only take a word by one of them to get the >personal attacks going like crazy, by those that "hate big iron." > I don't hate "big iron" and I am not interested in attacking these guys personally. But I do find it terribly disappointing and very surprising that DB---the most exciting thing ever in computer chess and possibly AI as well---only played one, inconclusive match against the human world champion and then quit forever. It would have cost IBM almost nothing to put DB on ICC and have it play top GM's, and the results would have been incredibly interesting for both human and computer chess. Given the extent to which DB built upon freely published research, and the amount of publicity IBM gained from the last Kasparov match, it seems to me that letting DB play in open competition is the least IBM could have done to repay their debt to the research community. Jon
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