Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 06:25:09 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 09:02:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. But I don't think this matters. For the whole world, and this is what I think matters, DB junior is not the IBM Deep Blue that beat Kasparov. Would IBM play DB against Kasparov Junior? Enrique > 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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