Author: Albert Silver
Date: 16:33:52 07/07/04
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On July 07, 2004 at 14:24:14, Anthony Cozzie 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.
>>
>
>That is pretty harsh criticism from someone who's engine competes in Class D at
>WBEC ;)
>
>anthony
You guys really need to learn to lighten up. It's not such harsh criticism as I
have yet to understand how anyone could possibly take any of it seriously. I'd
suggest some of the more vociferous posters take a couple of steps back to
regain some perspective.
Albert
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