Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:38:52 03/23/99
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On March 23, 1999 at 05:59:58, blass uri wrote: > >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 You don't think IBM would spend a few hundred bucks to buy all the current commercial programs? And go to their back room to pull out a few PIII/500 machines to run them on? In 1995, hsu reported they were winning > 90% of the games they played against Fritz, yet they lost that one critical game... with 7 rounds, anything can (and will) happen. There will definitely be _major_ upsets there... (Paderborn this year).
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