Author: allan johnson
Date: 21:55:09 01/10/00
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On January 10, 2000 at 17:16:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 10, 2000 at 17:01:32, Lonnie Cook wrote: >[snip] >>Bob, >>I pretty agree with your assessment of GK not wanting to play BUT GK is the one >>who wanted a rematch. He has mentioned it numerous X's > >When IBM was connected, then you could be sure of (at least) massive publicity. >I think it would be very nice if someone would back Hsu and create a monster >machine. But it would be a lot of money and a big risk. Maybe one of those 32 >CPU Compaq's? > >Anyway, Kasparov has good reason to be cautious. A single new chip would be a >formidable foe. Imagine a 32 CPU machine where each CPU has access to 32 of >Hsu's chips! > >Better yet, a cluster of 32 of these machines. It would be darn near >unbeatable. But it would also be very expensive to program and debug. Dann Would not Kasparov be able to plan to set up positions such as Shebarkov did aqainst Rebel in any future matches against a super Deep Blue he might agree to? I realise that the position was unusual but I still think this is the difference between GMs and computers.After all there is only so much info you can feed into a computer. Regards Allan
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