Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:20:02 06/18/99
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On June 18, 1999 at 20:35:39, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 I don't believe this has been a secret. I certainly have mentioned this more than once the past month... And they could always "ask" what it was they were playing against before reporting it?
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