Author: blass uri
Date: 19:54:19 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 16:09:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... I did not say that I believe that anand is better than kasparov against computers but that a team of anand and a microcomputer is better than kasparov. I believe that kasparov is the best player in the world also against computers I do not know if most of the world think that kasparov is better than a team of anand and one of the commercial programs. Uri
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