Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:05:53 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 12:51:36, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >I think we are talking from 2 different angles. > >You say that Hsu?s machine = Deep Blue, therefore Kasparov should accept the >rematch. This is the programmer talking. > >My point is that for the world Deep Blue is IBM, while Hsu?s machine is >perfectly unknown. Now, you have a world champion eager to play the rematch, >which means by definition against the very same opponent he lost to. Kasparov >may or may not know that Hsu can build a replica of DB, but what he knows for >sure, and we all do, is that for the audience of millions all over the world his >opponent would not be perceived as being the same, thus the rematch would not be >a re-match but something else. Instead, if IBM would put together Deep Blue >again, Kasparov would play. I believe that if Hsu built a machine, and challenged Kasparov, the world would quickly learn that it was a later version of something designed by the same person that designed the first two deep blue incarnations. And I would think that after Kasparov's comments about IBM after the last match, he would jump at the chance to (a) play a new version of DB; and (b) do so without any possible involvement from IBM, whom he thought was only "out to get Kasparov..." Wouldn't you agree? Headlines: "Deep Blue's designer challenges Kasparov with an even faster machine." "Kasparov challenged to play a new and improved Deep Blue machine." "etc..." I think the world would make the connection very quickly. > >I would love to see Kasparov (and Anand and a long etcetera) play Hsu?s machine >(and Tiger and another long etcetera), but that?s another issue. If I were in >Kasparov?s skin I wouldn?t even consider playing an unknown for a stake as high >as the world title or my own pride. He has absolutely nothing to win with it. >Then, why should he do it? It is up to IBM and to Kasparov to make this re-match >possible, not to anyone else?s. > >Enrique Kasparov made the world title offer. No one has _ever_ suggested that this be done in such matches until _he_ offered. I think it would be wrong to do this. Because I don't think we want an electronic world chess champion yet. If he had done this last time, we would already have one.
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