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Subject: Re: Diep chasing pawns in old good 80's dedicated machines style.....

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 09:38:08 07/07/04

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On July 07, 2004 at 12:09:14, Albert Silver wrote:

>On July 07, 2004 at 11:30:24, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>It has been a surprise to analyze Junior-Diep game, specially when you have
read >>here so many posts by Diepeveen talking of the huge knowledge
capabilities of >>his program. Looking at the position before white rook taking
"a" pawn it is not >>neccesary to be more than 2000 elo player to see the
threats lurking in the >>position, the great activity, open or scarcely hidden,
of black pieces, all of >>them aiming at the white king or near it.
>>Oh well, said Diep, but a pawn is a pawn....
>>If there is a program that can talk of knowledge is or has been Junior. At
least >>he really knows to attack.
>>Anyway, I got fun. As a lover of dedicated units, I chose to take Diep
endeavour >>in this game as a kind of homage to those old machines.
>>Very poignant indeed.
>>fernando
>
>You've heard of those nonsense posts on "what if a program like Junior were to
>run on the Deep Blue hardware?". Well, this is a similar experiment with the
>Chess Challenger software running on hardware that is thousands if not
millions >of times faster.


What is the DIEP hardware?



>
>A lot of people don't realize the meaning of the DIEP acronym, mistakenly
>thinking it has something to do with the author's name: Diminished Intellect
>Experimental Program.
>
>                                         Albert



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