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Subject: Re: Deep Blue, or Deeper Blue?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 11:04:48 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 11:43:03, Uri Blass wrote:

Deep Blue II in 1997 searched about 126MLN nodes a second
on average in the match versus kasparov.

The 1996 version had less cpu's and slower ones, which if i
conclude things well are also used in 1997 by the way to get
the number of nodes a second bigger.

In endgames the peek was 200-400MLN nodes a second.

In theory the machine could get over a billion nodes a second.
However if you only have 30 processors to keep busy so many hardware
cpu's, you never get to that number of course.

Despite the higher nodes a second they didn't search deeper in endgames.

>On August 21, 2002 at 11:30:02, chris larson wrote:
>
>>I thought the last IBM setup that Kasparov played (and lost to) was called
>>"deeper blue". Now everyone seems to be referring to it as just "Deep Blue". Is
>>it not true that deeper blue could assess approx 1 billions n/s compared to the
>>predecessor deep blue's rate of about 200,000 n/s?
>
>I remember that I read that deeper blue could search twice the number of nodes
>than deep blue.
>
>Deeper blue is the program that beated kasparov in 1997 when deep blue lost
>against him in 1996.
>Even deep thought searched more than 200,000 nodes/seconds when the numbers that
>I heard during the match of 1997 was 200M nodes per second.
>
>I do not know if the numbers were correct and IBM had a reason to give bigger
>numbers than the real numbers as a psychological war against kasparov.
>
>I do not say that they did it but only that I do not know.
>
>Uri



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