Author: James Swafford
Date: 17:49:45 11/06/99
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On November 06, 1999 at 20:04:27, Rajen Gupta wrote: >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. This has been discussed *many* times before. IBM is a business. DB was just a tool that has served its purpose. > >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 Strong words. > >deep blue is everything to do with hardware and nothing to do with the software. Please elaborate. I don't know anything about DB's 'software'. Are you privy to some information the rest of us aren't? I'd like you to back that one up.... > >i also doubt if Hsu or anyone else from the db project is ever going to come out >with this so-called superchip! Hmmm... > >rajen gupta
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