Author: stuart taylor
Date: 20:37:24 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 22:47:20, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 11, 2000 at 17:50:15, Roger wrote: > >>Instead of Hsu and Kasparov sparring against each other, perhaps they should >>join forces. I think they could both make TONS of money. >> >>Hsu needs cash to build a dumbed down Deep Blue that could be brought to the >>public. Kasparov has plenty of cash to finance the effort. This Deep Blue >>wouldn't be just any Deep Blue, it would a Deep Blue tuned with the aid of >>Kasparov's considerable chess knowledge. >> >>Outsearching everything that has ever existed, including Kasparov himself, and >>playing with the consistency of a computer, the play of such a machine could be >>made indistinguishable from that of the world champion, with any errors of play >>removed. Such a machine would basically immortalize the world champion. It would >>not actually *BE* Kasparov, but more like "Kasparov squared." >> >>If Kasparov lost to the machine, that would nothing to be ashamed of. Instead, >>it would be expected that Kasparov would lose to Deep Kasparov, just like >>Fischer would look to Fischer Squared, and so on. Applying the champion's >>knowledge deeper and more consistently in the chess tree than anything before >>it, there would even be little doubt that it could defeat Deep Blue, since it >>would be tuned with the world champion's chess knowlege. >> >>Effectively, Kasparov would be immortalized in silicon, just like David was >>immortalized in marble by Michelangelo. Unlike any static work of art, however, >>Kasparov's chess would be alive FOREVER, a hundred years from now, and on into >>eternity. His chess would be IMMORTAL. >> >>The machines might even be calibrated to play at the strength of Kasparov >>himself. No more arguments about whether some future champion could have >>defeated Kasparov the way we argue whether Kasparov could have defeated Fischer. >>Just fire up one of the Deep Kasparov machines and play. >> >>I can't imagine anything that a chess player would want more. >> >>Roger > > >I like your post. At first I thought it was a troll (with the words "Kasparov", >"Hsu" and "Deep Kasparov" in the subject line). > >But your idea is interesting. I don't care if it is feasable or not, it's just >fascinating. Issac Asimov would have written an excellent novel from it and I >would have been delighted to read it. > > > > Christophe It's only a question of where there's a will there's a way. Let them get to work! S.T.
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