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Subject: Re: IBM Chess GM Chips

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 00:11:20 03/30/99

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On March 29, 1999 at 18:20:42, Tom Glenn wrote:

>There is an interesting article by Feng-hsiung Hsu in the new IEEE Micro journal
>This is the Mar/Apr 99 issue .   ( http://computer.org/micro/ )
>The website is a members only thing , and I'm not.....
>The lengthy article had alot of info about the capability of DB , and DB Jr.
>A couple highlights :
>        He reiterates the 10 - 0  score of DB Jr  vs  leading micros ,  and
>goes on to say there were 40 total games played against the commercials , and
>DB Jr only dropped 2 pts.  Also , DB Jr scored better than a 3:1 ratio against
>the GM's working on the project.
>       The last paragraph states that he is forming an independent start-up
>company to create a new chess chip for consumers , that would make it possible
>for a desktop machine to defeat the world champ in a formal match by 2000 ....

That confirms my assumption that Hsu has gone ***...
A chess chip becoming WC in 2000....nonsense.




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