Author: blass uri
Date: 08:20:18 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 09:04:18, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Why does it have to be kasparov? I think that a team of anand and a microcomputer is better than kasparov. Is there an evidence that a match against kasparov is going to give more "impressions" that a match against a team of anand and a micro? Did they ask for the public opinion before they decided that the opponent must be kasparov? Uri
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