[chessmind-announce] New post at The Chess Mind
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Hello,
There is a new post on The Chess Mind. You can read it at:
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1178568421.shtml
It begins:
Here is a nice review article, taking a look back
at the (in)famous 1997 Kasparov-Deep Blue match.
While those of us who followed the match are quite
familiar its controversies, the article does add to
the purely chess lore with an IBM business factoid.
Thanks, at least in part, to the big PR boost from
winning the match, IBM went from having only 70 of
the top 500 supercomputer systems and none of the
top 10 (at the time of the match) to 236 of the top
500 and 4 of the top 10 (in the most recent
ranking)....
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