Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 10:15:13 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 12:09:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 09:25:09, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>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 > >No... but I'll bet that if you call them and say "Hey, I will buy 8 of your >SP2's with 256 nodes each, but only if you let me play two games vs the real >DB hardware" then they would be glad to set it up. Ie "dismantled" is still >the wrong term. "Mothballed" is better, because it _could_ play a game >with a few hours notice. OK, since we are already discussing this in this same thread (always a pleasure :) ),let's make it short. To make the re-match IBM's Deep Blue against Garry Kasparov, a necessary condition is that IBM's Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov will play. This condition is missing forever. DB Jr or Kasparov Jr won't do. 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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