Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:54:29 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 22:54:19, blass uri wrote: >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 I think most of the world would say "man and machine vs machine? ho humm... pass the beer..." and that would be it...
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