Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:25:38 01/27/03
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On January 27, 2003 at 09:04:02, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On January 27, 2003 at 02:18:36, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>DJ lost. Aside from this, neither it nor its team has anything to be ashamed >>of. Chess is a zero-sum game. > >Objection! It is a business, Bruce. Of course the team and poor DJ are not to be >blamed, but the spin doctors who lied about the strength of today's progs, they >are to be blamed. That's why people are so deceived. How was Bob Hyatt treated >when he said that the advantage of DB2 was still a trump card? It's the CC >people themselves who on the one side have the knowledge but on the other side >drifted into daydreaming wishful thinking. I think that you forget that Kasparov could not train against deeper blue when he could train against Junior and play against the specific weaknesses of Junior. Kasparov knew based on his experience that Junior does not play well in the kind of position that he played for(unless the programmers changed it in 6 months not to have the weaknesses). He could not do it against deeper blue and this is the reason that deeper blue played better relative to Junior's first game. The opinion that deeper blue is not better than the commercial of today is based on analysis of the games and finding no impressive move of Deeper blue that programs of today need hours to find(it is not a proof that deeper blue was not better but the point is that I found no evidence that deeper blue was better). Deeper blue stopped to play chess so it is impossible to prove something about it and we do not know the speed of deeper blue. The claim that it was 100 times faster than the programs of today is not something that we can take as a clear fact. Nodes are defined different by different programmers and we simply have no data about Deeper blue so it is better to stop to discuss about deeper blue. > > >> Sometimes you lose. Losses are rarely pretty. >>When computers lose, it's even more likely that you'll see something ugly, >>because a computer will make the strongest move it can, not the strongest move >>that is not embarassing. > >You misunderstand the chess of this game. Sorry. But as I said often enough, the >playing down a book line without real understanding is a scandal to CC itself. I do not think that it is scandal. It is possible also to claim that it is a scandal that humans can buy programs and learn their weaknesses when they cannot do it against human opponents. These are the rules of the game and I see no problem with them. Uri
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