Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:06:23 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 12:54:44, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On January 23, 2000 at 12:07:11, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On January 23, 2000 at 10:14:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 23, 2000 at 03:01:38, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 22, 2000 at 23:50:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>in the great scheme of things very much. You want to make silly suggestions,
>>>>>and then don't like it when someone points out why they are silly. As far as
>>>>
>>>>How about my silly suggestion that DB would run reasonably fast on a PC? Based
>>>>on FHH's own estimates, I guess it's not that silly, eh?
>>>>
>>>>I've tried to reason with you, others have tried to reason with you, it just
>>>>doesn't work. Don't expect me to post to this thread any more.
>>>>
>>>>-Tom
>>>
>>>I won't follow up any more either, as 'shouting' doesn't make something
>>>true. But you have _never_ explained why Hsu would invest a year or more
>>>to convert his code to the PC (probably more like 2 years). IE I'm not
>>>going to spend any time trying to get my code to run on a blender's cpu.
>>>There is no reason to do so...
>>
>>*sigh* I can't help myself...
>>
>>I actually DID explain why Hsu would invest a year or more to convert his code
>>to the PC: money.
>
>
>talk to the current commercial chess programmers. What is the probability
>that a new program would sell enough to pay Hsu at least $100-150K per year,
>his likely salary requirement after working for IBM? Nearly zero. Why not
>write the world's greatest tax-preparation software, as he could make a lot
>more money doing that. But it would be somewhat boring, don't you think?
>
>At least my opinion... I think he would view the PC rewrite as less of a
>challenge and more of a gamble and certainly a drudge... Who wants a thing
>that says "I can do everything the Intel pentium cpu can do, on your cheap
>old 486 cpu. Oh yes, it runs 6-9 orders of magnitude slower, but it is the
>same instruction set, etc...
>
Just as a side note. If it were possible on a practical level, I think it would
make money. Distribute it through some major software company like Mindscape,
plaster "Deep Blue: the program that beat Kasparov" on it and it would sell
big-time. Ask chess booksellers what books sell the most: anything that is
Kasparov. The names alone would rocket sales. Of course there would be a
detailed description of what was lost in the process, but you could put video
footage, documents, published articles, commented games, etc... I really have no
doubt it would sell like no other chess program in history IF it were
competitive. It wouldn't even have to be the best. Just being able to say you
beat DB would be the kind of thing that would have people buying it and butting
heads against it. Remember, there would be no need to sell the names. The match
already did that.
Albert Silver
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