Author: stuart taylor
Date: 22:32:57 01/20/00
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On January 20, 2000 at 18:47:07, Chris Carson wrote: >On January 20, 2000 at 17:39:18, walter irvin wrote: > >>where will the next great chess machine come from ?? the next machine to defeat >>a current world champion under tourn conditions .will it be a PC program or >>another super computer ?? > >IMHO: >I think PC program. I am not very optimistic that this will ever >happen. There will either need to be a lot of money thrown at the >right person, or the World Champ will have to want it really bad >(publicity). > >I hope I am right about the PC program, would love to buy >Rebel, Tiger, Junior, Fritz, Hiarcs, Nimzo, Shredder, CM, >the world champ version. :) > >I hope I am wrong about FIDE, PCA, whoever, avoiding that >opportunity. :) > >Best Regards, >Chris Carson If Hsu Feng, has the same program that "beat" Kasparov, why can't he get it fixed up with same speed hardware (which either now or soon will not cost too much as in 1997), And the programming must not be altered in any way at all, from how it was during Kasparov match (unless done by big grandmaster together with great computer programmer-who know for sure how to only improve it without compromising what is already there),or others can buy it from him and do that, then we have atleast that-not only in rumour-(like soon many of us will only have heard about the gulf war (Sadam-Bush)from our parents grandparents, and certainly about Fischer-Spaasky 72, even 92).And our grandchildren might still be speculating in 50 years time if deeper blue was better than what will be then, and it will remain a mystery at best. O.K! If DB was not for sure 150 elo above the top programs of now, forget it. But many believe it was 300 elo or more. S.Taylor
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