Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:35:53 11/18/99
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On November 18, 1999 at 19:24:59, ShaktiFire wrote: >Those bitches at IBM, supposedly doing a scientific endeavor, never release >any info about what they have learned, not even in scientific type publications, >no evals, no ideas on how they beat Kasparov. They have become whores of >capitalism,,, looking for the buck,,, not the growth of knowledge. IBM did more for computer chess than anyone else since the 1970's by that one single tournament. People are still talking about it today [see this thread?] I will go so far as to say that the Deep Blue/Kasparov matches were the most entertaining thing in all of chess in the last one hundred years. [IMO -- obviously]. I suspect that more chess interest was generated by this single set of two events than by all other chess happenings combined. We should be down on our knees, kissing their rich, corporate boots for the good that they have done for us. Now, as for not sharing -- that's their perogative. IBM is a company, and you are right -- their decisions will be controlled by money. If you owned a corporation, I suspect your bottom line would effect what information you kept and released as well. As far as your assertions about not sharing -- that is obviously false as the papers published by Hsu and Campbell over the years have shown. Finally, there is a book being written on the topic (as has already been discussed in this very forum -- were you paying attention?) which will certainly add to our information. Even if they never uttered a syllable and just kept Deep Blue as a black box so that we had no idea at all about how it worked, we should be deeply grateful. It is easy to aim barbs at huge corporations and call them the evil empire. In this case, I think you are miles off target. IMO-YMMV.
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