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

Author: James B. Shearer

Date: 10:15:19 08/27/01

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On August 27, 2001 at 04:33:31, Uri Blass wrote:

>for comparison Here is Deeper blue's logfile
>
>Guessing Nd2
> 7(4) #[O-O](10)##############################################[h5](18)# 18  T=1
>Ph7h5 qd1e2 Qd8d6 pa2a3 Bb4a5 o-o Ba5d2n bc1d2B
> 8(6) #[h5](-2)##[O-O](0)############################################ 0  T=11
>O-O o-o Bb4c5 nd2f3 Ne5f3n bg2f3N
> 9(6) #[O-O](-3)#########<ch> 'nd2'
>[153 sec (main.c:1849)][cont]###################################### -3  T=39
>O-O o-o Bb4d6 nd2b3 Nf6d5 ph3h4 Ph7h6
>10(6) #[O-O](-15)######[h5](-5)######################################### -5
>T=151
>Ph7h5 qd1e2 Ne5g6 pc2c3 Bb4e7 nd2e4 Ph5h4 bc1e3 Qd8a5 pg3g4
>11(6)[TIMEOUT] -5  T=178
>Ph7h5
>---------------------------------------
>-->  11. ..   h5 <-- 29/101:33
>
>you can see that deeper blue needed 151 seconds to see 11...h5 and the
>main line of Junior at depth 16 is
>the same as deeper blue's in the first 4 plies.
>
>Uri

        A couple of points.  First it appears Deep Blue saw h5 earlier at 1-11
seconds but then switched to o-o for a while.  Second it is not universally
agreed that h5 is a good move.  Seirawan for example doesn't care for it.  So I
don't think this is an ideal test case.
                            James B. Shearer



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