Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:14:16 11/09/98
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On November 09, 1998 at 19:50:27, jonathan Baxter wrote: >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 You think way too small, as do most of us. When you look at the value of another Deep Blue vs someone match in a year or two, then you begin to understand why it is kept under wraps. Interest is high. A Karpov match would draw another crowd, as would a match against maybe Anand... This is all about money... and once it becomes about money, the guys doing the research lose control to the guys counting beans...
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