Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:50:56 02/02/99
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On February 02, 1999 at 17:05:56, blass uri wrote: >On February 02, 1999 at 16:01:43, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>I don't think that the average person who is in the market for a supercomputer >>spends a lot of time playing chess. > >I think the number of operations per second and the memory of the computer >should be the important things for the public and not their result against >kasparov. Of course. Even more important is applications. It would be a shame to be all dressed up with nowhere to go. On the other hand, I'll bet that the D.B. match captured *your* (and my and everyone else here's) imagination when it was going on. I suspect that it may have been the most successful publicity stunt of all time. CNN had it listed as one of the top ten news stories of 1997. Didn't you feel a little awe at the power of that IBM machine? At any rate, it certainly brought a lot of world-wide attention to the game of chess. I'll bet the publicity of that match sold more PC chess games than all of the advertizing that the companies that produced the PC games. I think it also changed the view of top chess players towards computers. Earlier remarks about chess computers by top players tend to classify them as pitiful toys and not fit to play against. I don't think we will see that reaction any more (or at least not to the degree formerly manifested).
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