Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 15:57:22 05/03/99
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The impact, though gradule, is definate & conclusive. At first the higher income types will buy this card. Its a class issue; Exactly why they buy it will be to be able to tell their neibers, friends and such, that I have the program that beats the World Champion. After a while the number of units sold will increase and the price will come down somewhat. Then a signifcant number of the chess addicts! will get it. A little while later software (& PC's), will catch up again, and then there will only be the question of what use guys like Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, and such put them too. - The top player's will no longer bother to play the programs, as it would almost surely never be worth their while to show people how they lose the greater numbers of games to them. So GM's preperation (especially to do Opening novelties), will increase in using these programs. Maybe only some kind of Advanced chess tournaments will still be played. - See, Kasparov was right! :) mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! 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 > > > > > >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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