Author: Mark Schreiber
Date: 15:37:51 01/12/00
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A good idea, but Hsu would not agree for 2 reasons. For Hsu to get money to build the computer he would need to guarantee Kasparov would play. If Hsu’s computer lost the pre-Kasparov tournament, then Kasparov does not play and the sponsor gets no publicity. This is the main reason. A 2nd reason is that Hsu’s strategy was to surprise Kasparov. Deep blue was never to play in public, so Kasparov could not prepare by studying previous deep blue games. On January 12, 2000 at 12:32:46, Geo Disher wrote: >Maybe another idea would be to do what GK has asked. Setup a tournament with >some of the other top GM’s. Have each GM in the tournament play each of the >others(sorry I forgot the name of this type of tournament). Ask GK to agree now >to play Deep Blueish if and only if it wins this strong tournament. My feeling >is that if Deep Blueish can’t when this tournament then it should not get to >play GK anyway. This would give GK the games he wants to see and it would build >up the hype for the GK vs DB encounter, which would be next. It would also give >the DB team a chance to fine-tune their program. > >I am sorry if this has already been suggested but I did not see it in any of the >other posts.
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