Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:24:54 10/10/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 14:15:10, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 07:21:45, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>Please read http://sjeng.org/ftp/deepblue.pdf, written by the DB team, >>which directly contradicts the 12(8) = 12+8 hypothesis. > >Could you please tell me where it contradicts this? I see "A three minute >search on Deep Blue would reach a full-width depth of 12.2 on average." That is >not contradictory, as they appear to commonly refer to the full-width depth as >only the number searched by software. > >There are a couple tables that you could be referring to, but they can't explain >what 12(8) really means, if it is not software(hardware) depth. And how can we >explain searches like 4(5) if it works differently? I think people will read what they want to read in this case. I have reported what the DB team told me directly about the 12(6) meaning... 12 plies in software, 6 more in hardware. Someone else (Dann or Dave perhaps?) asked them the _same_ question and got the _same_ answer. I concluded that what Hsu is talking about is _not_ the full-blown deep blue machine, but rather about the "junior" version as that is what they were running the experiments in that paper based on...
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