Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 07:56:21 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! they're never gonna press a million chesschips, forget that. they risk like 144 billion dollar doing something like that, not talking about investments. IBM just uses marketing hypes like this to compare things with.
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