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Subject: Re: What is the purpose of Hydra?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 15:29:14 08/22/04

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On August 22, 2004 at 13:46:54, George Sobala wrote:

>On August 22, 2004 at 13:01:16, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>If it has no commercial value then what is it's purpose.  Are they trying to
>>accomplish what Deep Blue already has done?
>
>And what was it that Deep Blue did exactly? It beat Kasparov in an emotionally
>charged match where he threw the last game, only to be immediately dismantled
>and it never played again. It certainly did not demonstrate true chess
>superiority over the World Champion

Your assumption that "Kasparov threw the match" is silly.  Unless of course you
have some proof.  Yes it was dismantled after it accomplished what it was built
for.  I wish it had not but since IBM paid for it they can do what they want
with it.  Still I see no reason to re-invent the wheel.  I do like the idea of a
"Deep Blue Jr." on a single plug-in card.  I wish that was where they were
headed with Hydra.



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