Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:04:13 12/09/98
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On December 08, 1998 at 23:15:09, Mark Young wrote: >Not at all, I just don't underestimate the depth of chess. And I know how all >computer programs find chess moves. And 1 Billion position a second is not going >to cut it at that time control. Not when each new ply is exponentially larger. >No program yet can select the few good lines and just search just them, like a >strong human play can do given 1 move per day. The program would be badly out >searched by Kasparov. One billion positions a second is not even a drop in the >bucket, given that level of play. My _belief_ is that Deep Blue is really good at searching the shit out of the really important variations, as compared to the fluff. I suppose it will take more than my belief to convince you of that, though. :-) And justifiably so. I was interested by a comment Amir made some time ago, something like that he _knew_ that Junior extended more aggressively than Deep Blue did. That isn't a direct quote, and I hope my memory hasn't retained a sentence meaning something different from what he actually said. In any event, I imagine it would be easy enough for him to know if Junior extends moreso than the team did back around 1991, when they published articles in the ICCA Journal. What I wasn't sure about was how he would know that Junior extends more than their current software. Did the printouts from Kasparov - Deep Blue lend credence to this assertion? Dave Gomboc
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