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Subject: Re: Wanted: Deep Blue vs. today's top programs recap

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 07:17:24 08/26/01

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On August 26, 2001 at 06:43:00, Janosch Zwerensky wrote:

>
>>(...)
>>Put Deep Fritz, or other top programs, on the best available platform on which
>>they can run, and I imagine this is what they will have in Bahrain, and knowing
>>what we do about DB, what comparisons can we make?
>
>I think that, if you want to get such comparisons, you'd best try asking people
>who have actually played any number of games worth mentioning against Deep Blue
>II. To my knowledge, there are such people - IM Benjamin

Good suggestion! But please not that Joel Benjamin is a grandmaster, and was
already one several years before he helped the Deep Blue team. Not that it
matters much, but I think he had to work very hard to get the GM title and we
should refer to him as a grandmaster.
José.

>would be an example, as
>well as possibly GM Illescas - and I'd guess it is safe to say that they also
>have some experience concerning the strength of play of top commercial chess
>programs today.
>If you'd be able to get a statement from them, I'd be very interested to read
>about it. If no information on DB is available from these or comparable sources,
>I'd guess we can do nothing more than look at DB's hardware advantage and
>conclude that it probably was a lot stronger than is any chess playing machine
>today.
>
>Regards,
>Janosch.



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