Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 19:56:30 03/22/99
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On March 22, 1999 at 13:06:59, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On March 22, 1999 at 05:41:01, Bert Seifriz wrote: > >>On March 22, 1999 at 04:58:36, Peter McKenzie wrote: >> >>>Chess Wizard, the French Champion I think, isn't there. >>>No Deep Blue either, no great surprise IBM but disappointing all the same. >>> >>A big surprise for me is that people cannot stop asking for DEEP BLUE. >>I have read at least 50 times around here and in other newsgroups >>that DEEP BLUE's hardware was disassembled into single parts >>which lie rusting in a dark storage room with mothballs and spiderwebs. >>Why has this fact still not reached the highest mountain top >>and the deepest valley? So you will never see DEEP BLUE again! > >Deep Blue, or more likely 'Baby Blue' could easily be reassembled. I mean Baby >Blue, which I think is basically just a work station with a single board >containing four of the special purpose chess chips, would be trivial for them to >put together. It would still contain a MASSIVE amount of chess horsepower. > >I guess the reason they aren't showing up is that IBM doesn't want to risk any >negative publicity (like last time when they lost to Fritz). How interesting is a contest for second place? None of the other programs are in the same league with the IBM hardware horror. A chess program contest with Deep Blue included would be rather anti-climactic. An auto race with one Ferarri and a bunch of bicycles. I doubt very much that there would be any fear of failure. When I was in the military I ran a lot. I had the fastest time on my base at Patrick AFB for the mile and a half by a good margin. My CO wanted me to run in the base track meet. I could do a half mile in a little under two minutes then. I found out that the competition was a bunch of forty year old guys who I could run circles around [I was 20]. I did not even show up because I would rather just let one of them win it. Of course, it would be possible for me to fall down or something like that and lose. But I did not stay away for fear of losing. I just thought it would be stupid to race them. >> >>What interests me: where did you get the participants list from? > >It was posted to all participants by the ICCA. > >>Kind regards, Bert
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