Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:11:54 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 09:32:35, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 09:04:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 14, 2000 at 06:43:27, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>On January 14, 2000 at 06:39:02, Alvaro Polo 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. >>>> >>>>Ok, Enrique. Deep Blue does not longer exists. But what counts is perception >>>>more than reality, many times. >>> >>>But this is precisely the point. Hsu's new machine is not perceived as IBM's >>>Deep Blue by anyone except the few people in computer chess. >>> >>>Enrique >> >>I'm not sure I agree... and offer "Seymour Cray" as an example. He left CDC >>to design a new and faster machine. He had no problems getting financial >>backing as everyone _knew_ he designed the CDC 6600/Cyber 176. He left Cray >>Research to build the Cray-2/Cray-3. Again, he had no trouble getting financial >>backers. Everyone knew it was the "man" and not the "company" that came up with >>the design ideas. >> >>I think Hsu is exactly the same... > >From a programmer's point of view it may be the same, but the Kasparov-DB >rematch has the whole world as an audience, and in this whole world everyone >knows IBM Deep Blue as the machine that beat Kasparov, no one aside from >computer chess people and academic circles know Hsu's project. How to justify to >them that a new XXX "mystery box" plays the world champion? Put it this way: in >this context, Kasparov has nothing to win, everything to lose and then no reason >to play. > >Enrique > "Kasparov knows" and that is all that counts. He demanded a rematch many times. Then when he gets the opportunity to finally (perhaps) get his just revenge, he walks away. That is his choice to do, of course. But _he_ knows that Hsu was "Deep Blue".
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