Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:10:05 07/07/04
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On July 07, 2004 at 14:05:41, mike tubbs wrote:
>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.
>>
>>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.
>>
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> Has Vincent Diep Bashing Become Socially Acceptable here at CCC?
It's Diepeveen not Diep. I took a poke at the program, not the author. Taking
pokes at programs is completely normal, just as are posts claiming such and such
program is the best in the world for all time until the universe explodes.
Albert
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