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Subject: Re: Will "Blue Gene" be a chessmachine?

Author: Lonnie Cook

Date: 23:50:39 12/08/99

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On December 09, 1999 at 02:32:05, Martin Grabriel wrote:

>A better publicity would be for such a machine to play simultaneous match
>against humans (including Kasparov and others) and computers. Better still, take
>on 10 players in Chess, 10 in GO, 10 in Chinese Chess, and 10 in checkers.

Martin,
No ... read what I am saying ... IBM is playing massive headgames. The seduction
of the human mind and heart through tension, imagination PLUS GO has no where
ben perfected as chess algorithms and its much harder to do as its much more
complicated than chess boundaries.

Chinese chess prob the same problem but not as bad.

NOW checkers, draughts thats another story THAT has been proven to beat the
best, Chinooks I believe. Vin will probably correct me as he programs a pretty
strong draughts program
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>On December 09, 1999 at 00:51:34, Lonnie Cook wrote:
>
>>TO all,
>>I think it will! I think IBM's grand scheme of things is to get the momentum
>>going like in the last Match with GK only this time it will be much bigger. A
>>grudge match for the humans, a much faster computer, transient whispers of human
>>intervention for DB, more people online, millions more AND he stands to profit
>>from it all ... IBM, massive publicity.
>>
>>They keep saying it will NOT be used as a chess machine but little by little if
>>they let trickles of propaganda out they can squeeze the public till they pop!



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