Author: blass uri
Date: 02:59:58 03/23/99
Go up one level in this thread
On March 22, 1999 at 22:56:30, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. The hardware is not in the same league with the IBM but I believe that they are afraid because they know that this is not a contest only of hardware I believe that it is possible to beat kasparov even with a 386 hardware if someone finds the right ideas. They cannot be sure of winning because they cannot be sure about the level of the others. Uri
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.