Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:32:44 01/10/00
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On January 09, 2000 at 22:21:25, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>You can read the letter at http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/feng.html
>
>Your comments?
>
>Dave
Thanks. I read a number of things in it and miss a major thing
What i miss:
- did kasparov get offered money, and if so how much?
kasparov will dead sure play if he gets some dollars.
learn me how chessplayers are! They're all addicted
to money. No price fund garantuee, no match. Dead simple.
What's obvious:
- Hsu says he needs a sponsor to rewrite Deep Blue to
an other design that's cheaper and commercializable.
Well i would love to get money to professional develop DIEP
too! Of course he's not gonna get much money for free to
develop deep blue. It already has won from Kasparov. And what
non-academic here beliefs that in a rematch over a lot more
games that deep blue makes a chance against Kasparov? Deep
Hsu has a high risk to FAIL. This is not worth the money.
- Hsu doesn't write how much money he asked from the sponsors for
himselve.
If Hsu just needs 30,000 dollar to live from. 100,000 dollar
to buy some software and hardware needed to make a CPU. And
100000 to test the CPU, then we talk about other numbers as
when talking about many millions just to make a chip.
This open letter, for which we thank Hsu he writes it, basically says
something about something obvious: it's hard to find money.
Saying that Kasparov refused i don't find fair without saying the exact
conditions which he declined.
Vincent
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