Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:32:39 02/29/00
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On February 29, 2000 at 20:56:41, Albert Silver wrote: [snip] >>Does anyone really believe that we would all be better off had Kasparov won >>again? > >I do. If Deep Blue had been convincingly better than Kasparov, I would have no >problem swallowing the painful pill of reality, but as such I feel ripped off. >As a player I have to deal with the consequences of it and this is bad enough. >You wouldn't believe the amount of nonsense I still hear on this from people who >only know that a computer beat the World Champion end of story. Even Kasparov >has been paying a heavy price for this. I work at times with someone who >organizes events, and has already brought the big K to Brazil, but nowadays, the >market has pretty much dried up. Do you really think his image is untarnished >despite his spectacular run in 1999 (of which the rest of the worl remains >blissfully oblivious)? I have a different opinion as to why his image is tarnished. Imagine if he conducted himself as a perfect gentleman at all times. How would you *personally* feel different about him? >As long as one believed computers were still a step >behind in chess, it was easier to attract corporate sponsors; as it is, the >beliefe is that all that remains to be seen is when PCs will be able to >replicate DB's feat. I don't believe that that is the situation, but I am a >small minority so it doesn't matter. I don't know about how much harder or easier it would be to get corporate sponsors. The millions of dollars that IBM threw at it was some kind of freak miracle. Nobody else had ever done anything remotely like that. The kinds of things like before Deep Blue (Hitech, etc) are still being done (Zugzwang, CilkChess, etc). The university based research is about the same as before (if not more) and the previous corporate sponsorship -- what was it? I suspect that if someone else came up with an idea better than Hsu & Campbell's, they could find a sponsor. [snip]
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