Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 17:35:39 06/18/99
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On June 18, 1999 at 20:16:44, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On June 18, 1999 at 18:31:05, Roger D Davis wrote: > >>I found this message on the Rebel Site where the events of round six were >>reported: >> >>Ed and I took the opportunity to play some 10 minute blitz games against Deep >>Blue Junior. Amazingly Rebel crushed the IBM supermonster with 3-0! Deep Blue >>Junior had no chance in these games, so one can have his doubts about the >>playing strength of this machine. >> >>I haven't seen anyone else mention Deep Blue Junior. >> >>Roger > > >Ed didn't tell "the rest of the story" so I will... > >I ask Hsu about this 'machine' a few weeks back, and here is what he told me >about it: > >Some internal IBM folks asked him to develop a 'demo' facility to show off DB. >He elected to do a web-based interface, which is "stateless" if you know what >this is all about. In essence, this machine won't play a "game" at all, it >simply takes a position, searches it for 1 second (which includes mostly the >time needed to download the chess processors with the state information) and >then it produces a move. No repetition testing at all, no game history, no >nothing except for a near-instant search. However, it can take quite a while >to make a move because _many_ web browsers get pointed at this thing by the >IBM guys doing demos... > >Hsu estimated that it might play at 2200 or so. Which was all that was needed >for the demonstrations it is used for. It is _not_ "deep blue junior" by any >measure you would care to name. > >And putting such nonsense on Ed's web page is _highly_ misleading. > >To say the least. > >Bob It's a bit hard to fault people who might not be aware of the complete details of the setup. Dave
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