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Subject: Re: The Fredkin Prize

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:54:17 04/27/05

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On April 26, 2005 at 23:33:25, chandler yergin wrote:

>On April 26, 2005 at 19:50:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Why do you try and provoke, and why do you mislead?
>
>By your own admission and words:
>
>The Fredkin Prize
>
>"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."
>
>In the words of HSU:
>The adventure to create Deep Blue, the first computer to defeat the World Chess
>Champion in a serious match.
>"I started the project in 1985."
>
>The 'Team' did not exist until then!
>
>Sorry...

the people did.  And they were involved in computer chess.  Murray for at least
10 years prior to that.  Etc...




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