Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:02:05 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 06:36:05, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 06:21:04, Alvaro Polo wrote: > >>It is my opinion that Kasparov should play Deep Blue. > >This is off track. Kasparov always wanted the rematch, but IBM dismantled Deep >Blue. Hsu's new machine is not Deep Blue. > >Enrique DB Jr is still operational. The DB 'chips' are in a box. It would only take a couple of hours to plug them in to a new SP2, another hour to restore the DB software. Saying "dismantled" isn't the word I would use. "Mothballed" is closer to the truth. Or "put it into storage". It could play, if the right opportunity came up. > >>Why? Because that is what >>the audience is interested on. If you log on ICC when there is a lecture about >>GK-DB you can see lots of people listening there. I would say more people that >>the Khalifman-Leko game or any human-human game. >> >>So the interest is there. Kasparov will find it difficult to find the money to >>defend his title against a human. In fact, the Kasparov-Shirov match didn't >>occur and probably Kasparov-Anand match won't occur. People are interested on >>GK-DB above any other thing and it is difficult and foolish to fight the market. >>Chess, except for a few years, has always been a sport with no money in. If >>Kasparov was WC of any other sport he would be making much more than he is right >>now. So, the interest is on GK-DB and Kasparov probably won't be able to fight >>against that. >> >>Having said this, I understand Kasparov attitude of not helping Hsu find money >>to fund his machine. Hsu wants to wrest the WC away from Kasparov. He shouldn't >>expect any help from Kasparov himself to accomplish this.
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