Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:08:28 12/09/99
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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! I don't think it will become a 'chess machine' IMHO. Hsu is no longer with IBM, and he was _the_ force behind the project. Using 1M cpus, and 16M chess processors is a whole new ballgame in the world of parallel searching. They will no doubt slip in the comparison to "Deep Blue" whenever they can, for the market recognition it has. But that is probably all...
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