Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:34:36 07/08/02
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On July 08, 2002 at 02:28:03, Slater Wold wrote: >On July 08, 2002 at 00:32:42, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On July 06, 2002 at 20:15:06, stuart taylor wrote: >> >>> >>>> >>>>I suspect that search may see that the right move help to push the opponent king >>>>closer to the corner relative to the wrong moves and it may be enough. >>>> >>>>Uri >>> >>>Yes, that looks like the best thing to try and work on, doesn't it? >>> >>>If not, can I ask two questions?: >>>1)What should be done during the near future to push computer elo forward as >>>much as possible? >>>2)If Deeper blue was really much stronger than todays tops, what was that due >>>to? Better long-term planning? Seeing deeper? >>>S.Taylor >> >> >>Huge speed. >> >>It was doing most things worse than the best micro programs, but it was doing it >>so fast that it was eventually stronger. >> >>Hum... Let me rephrase for the sensitive people out there. There was nothing >>Deep Blue did better than the best micro programs. But it was so fast that it >>allowed it to hide its defficiencies. >> >>Shit. That's not very diplomatic either. Let's try again: Deep Blue was build >>around a concept outdated by 2 decades but fortunately it was so fast that >>nobody noticed until their creators published their paper. >> >>Oops... OK, once again: >> >>Bob likes Deep Blue a lot, and that should be a reason good enough to convince >>you that it was well designed. >> >> >> >> Christophe ;-) > >I too am a DB fan. Just like Bob. > >But I actually agree with you here. I don't think DB did anything >*spectacular*. I totally disagree. Their speed _was_ "spectacular". And that was _the_ point of Deep Blue, after all. Not the point everyone _wants_ to be the point of deep blue, but _the point_ the team developed over 10 years... > >But I also know that Program X will be a _LOT_ stronger on hardware 100,000x >times faster than anyone else has. No matter how horrible the software side is.
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