Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:04:18 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 07:53:01, blass uri wrote: >On January 11, 2000 at 07:17:15, Robert Hyatt wrote: > ><snipped> >>That makes no sense. Hsu designed the hardware. And wrote most of the >>software. Without him, DB is "dead". As someone else said, it is equivalent >>to saying that Ed is not Rebel, or you are not Junior, or I am not Crafty. > >It is not the same Junior was alive before chessbase decided to use it as an >engine. > >Deep blue needs the money of someone > >I agree that without hsu there is no deep blue but the fact is that without >money there is also no deep blue > >deep blue is hsu and money and not only hsu. > >If hsu cannot get money from playing against other players like anand or other >programs then it is not clear to me that he can get money from playing kasparov. > >Uri This is an easy one to discuss. Once Hsu's new book pops out, there is some good data that came from some marketing research unit within IBM. They have a term "impressions" that is a unit of exposure. The number of "impressions" registered during the DB match was incredible, when you factor in the newspaper articles, talk radio, television, magazines, etc. _any_ company would be interested in getting a piece of that action. But they probably believe that it has to be Kasparov, since everyone is considered to be "second best" at present...
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