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Subject: Re: Junior better understanding of chess than Deep Blue

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 13:36:22 01/12/03

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On January 12, 2003 at 03:43:46, Jeroen Noomen wrote:

Rebel laptop - junior blue. like 5-0 or so?

see the 'quality' of the moves. do not care for missing a book.
it didn't know a thing from pawn structure, bad bishops or anything
which every engine nowadays has (has fritz bad bishops by the way?
doesn't seem so is it?)

>On January 11, 2003 at 14:32:08, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>Any software program of today outsearches positional Deep Blue of course,
>>this is clearly the case.
>>
>>also we both know that in 1997 programs knew shit from endgames nor middlegame.
>>That's quite some difference now. In 1997 i remember that beancounters (and DB
>>was a very good beancounter for its time) did pretty well.
>
>As I was trying to say: We know a lot, we speculate a lot, but there is only one
>method to find out if Deep Blue is worse than the current programs: They have to
>play matches.
>
>In other words: I don't take words as facts. Only scores.
>
>Jeroem



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