Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:09:19 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 11:20:18, blass uri wrote: >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 Remember we are talking about public relations. To 99% of the world at large, Kasparov is the best human player around. To those of us that think Anand's style might be better, we probably represent maybe 1/10,000th of one percent of the world's population. Which group would you think Intel, or Microsoft, or Compaq, might want to appeal to? DB beat Kasparov in the second match. Playing a lower-rated player won't have the same pizazz...
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