Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:50:01 04/26/05
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On April 26, 2005 at 18:08:01, chandler yergin wrote: >On April 26, 2005 at 17:04:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 26, 2005 at 16:52:10, chandler yergin wrote: >> >>>On April 26, 2005 at 16:35:03, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On April 26, 2005 at 15:46:33, chandler yergin wrote: >>>> >>>>>On April 26, 2005 at 14:44:22, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On April 26, 2005 at 12:29:27, chandler yergin wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>The Fredkin Prize was $100,000 for the first team to build or program >>>>>>>a computer that would defeat the World Champion in a Match! >>>>>>> >>>>>>>The Deep Blue Team won it. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>No it wasn't >>>>>> >>>>>>It was a three stage prize. The first for the author of the first computer to >>>>>>achieve a master chess rating. Awarded to Belle in 1983. The second for the >>>>>>first program to produce a 2600 performance rating over 25 consecutive games >>>>>>against grandmaster players in long (40 moves in 2 hours or slower) games. >>>>>>Awarded to deep thought in the early 1990's. The final stage was to beat the >>>>>>world champion in a match. Awarded to IBM in 1997. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Your point would be??? >>>>> >>>>>As I Posted! >>>>> >>>>>The Fredkin Prize was $100,000 for the first team to build or program >>>>>a computer that would defeat the World Champion in a Match! >>>>> >>>>>Awarded to IBM in 1997. >>>>> >>>>>What don't you understand? >>>>> >>>>>What do the previous stages have to do with what happened in 1997? >>>>> >>>>>Why do deliberately try and Provoke me? >>>>>Hmmm? >>>> >>>>I answered that earlier. IBM spent _millions_ of dollars on the deep blue >>>>project. The salaries were about $1M per year for the entire team, spread over >>>>10 years. Not to mention the hardware, the public relations setup, the expenses >>>>for Kasparov. The prize fund. And they did all of that to win $100,000.00??? >>>> >>>>:) >>>> >>>>Absolutely amazing logic. I hope you get better advise for investing for your >>>>retirement, 15+ million dollars over 10 years to get a return of $100,000 is >>>>_not_ very smart investing... IMHO anyway... >>> >>>Why can't you accept your friend HSU's own words? >>>Pg 263 >>>"Right after the rematch we did not believe that we would receive the >>>Fredkin Prize. >>>While satisfying the original intent of the Prize, >>>the match did not conform to the Prize Committee's match conditions >>>set a few years back, in particular the length of the match and the size of the >>>prize fund." >>> >>>Hmmmm? >> >> >>I don't have any idea what point you are trying to make. Perhaps that because >>he wrote that statement, that somehow implies that winning the Fredkin stage III >>prize was the ultimate goal of this little exercise? >> >>Not true. >> >>It was something that happened along the way, for sure. But it was not any >>driving motivation for IBM as you are trying to imply. It was way too little >>money for what IBM invested in the DB project... > >I have never implied it was the motivation of IBM.. it was the motivation >of the TEAM. >It was never any secret! there you are completely "full of it." The fredkin prize was _not_ the motivation for the "team". We were all in this "grand chase" way before any Fredkin prize even existed. Sorry.
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