Author: George Sobala
Date: 14:38:25 08/23/04
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On August 23, 2004 at 05:43:50, Mike Hood wrote: >On August 22, 2004 at 18:29:14, James T. Walker wrote: > >>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. > >If Kasparov did indeed throw the match (which I doubt), it was only because of a >temper tantrum caused by the emotionally charged matches. And a win is a win, >whatever the reason, so let's leave this point be. > >As for IBM dismantling the machine, everyone knows why they did this. Defeating >the reigning world champion was a major PR victory, but IBM was afraid it was a >fluke, so they wanted to quit while they were ahead. Kasparov might have won a >return match. And Anand (in my opinion the world's best anti-computer player) >might have squashed Deep Blue 4-0 a month later, which was too much of a risk. >Who knows? Give Eduard Nemeth an Internet connection to Deep Blue and, after >some experimenting, he might have chalked up a 24-0 victory. I agree entirely. (I used the phrase "threw the match" to mean that he was too emotionally disturbed to play properly, not that he lost deliberately. And yes, a win is a win, but it left the chess-playing ability of the winner in doubt.) So there you have it: perhaps the purpose of Hydra is to be a real and consistent World Champion beater.
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