Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 07:44:22 05/03/99
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On May 03, 1999 at 09:03:48, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >I don't see why it would have a great impact. Being hardware based, it would >cost significantly more, and there are many people who would be reluctant to pop >open their case, and toss in a card, when they could more easily do a simple >software install. > >And why? Find me a non-GM who can regularly beat Fritz or Rebel or Genius on a >PII400. I doubt you'll find one. Heck, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who >could regularly beat Crafty on a Pentium 200 MMX. To most people, it makes no >real difference whether their program is FIDE 2500 or FIDE 2650....they get >their clock cleaned either way. I'm a Master, and I can't really tell much of a >difference between Fritz running on my P5/75 laptop, and on my 266 at home. I >get whumped pretty regularly by both. So why would it make much difference to >the average (USCF 1500) player whether he was outrated 1200 point, or a mere >1000? There is n o real advantage to having DBjr, other than being able to say >that you own the strongest computer on earth. > >Chris > > Hi Chris: You are right and at the same time completely wrong. You miss the motivation aspect that moves all this industry and ourselves as customers. Yes, we are all beated regularly since a long time ago. And so, in terms of sheer reason, we should have abandoned purchasing activities in the beginnings of the 90,s or so, maybe before. I am sure that 90% of people here is beated sistematically by, say, Chesmaster 3000 IF take backs are not alouded. Nevertheless, we still keep purchasing. Why? I have tried sometimes to develop a theroy about this, but we do not need it to recognize the fact we purchase and purchase and that we are all the time asking for more strenght. Is like the obsession to sharpen your pencil beyond any need to do that. Or we try to imagine how it would be to play Kasparov or the like. Or we prefered to be defeated by a GM than by a "mere" IM. To lose against, say, K-Chess Elite is a crude way to recognize how a bad player you are; to lose againts a GM say nothing about your force, except the obvious fact you are not a GM. And probably there are more reasons. So, let me bet this: if ever Deep Blue Junior appears in the market, 99,99% of people here will rush to the shop to buy. Truly yours Fernando > > > >On May 02, 1999 at 12:01:56, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi all: >>If the article by the father of Deep Blue -look at Gambitsoft- is not just an >>exercize of rethoric, maybe next year w'll have a card for our PC with a kind of >>home Deep Blues that according the man would be capable of beating the world >>champ. Any of you knows more about the feasibility of that? And what will happen >>to the rest of the industry -rebel, m-chess, etc- if such a monster really >>arrives to our hands? Opinions? >>Fernando
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