Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 17:04:27 11/06/99
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I do not know why such a big fuss is made about ''how ''deep blue makes its moves or whatever-after all its just a supercomputer powered by hundreds of regular powerpc chips with the added bonus of having an additional few hundreds of chips specially optimised to do chess calculations together with an analysed database of every single gm game ever played on this planet. it is no surprise that it should play so well-the greatest surprise is that unlike a true sportsman it refused to give its opponent a return match or allow its opponent to play a few test games with it beforehand-but then ibm have never been sportsmen. Any of the current chess programmers would have beaten the butts of deepblue if they had the facility to port their programmes to the hardware that db was running on deep blue is everything to do with hardware and nothing to do with the software. i also doubt if Hsu or anyone else from the db project is ever going to come out with this so-called superchip! rajen gupta
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