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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:57:49 12/09/99

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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.
>

you forgot a very interesting game here:
  - draughts
  - shogi

after tinsley there are no long professional checkers players?

>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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