Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:35:59 03/23/99
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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. 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. > actually there would be a "good" chance of failure in at least one game. Assume they would win 90% of the games against any one opponent. Then we would say their probability of winning any round is .9... What is the probability that they would win all 7 rounds? .9^7, which is .48 or lets round to .5... ie there is only a coin-toss chance that they would win all 7 games. And _any_ loss looks bad, as we know from 1995. :) >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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