Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:57:58 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 21:46:38, Roger wrote: >Excerpt from the interview: > >"For instance, if you were to remove the database, you can >have a computer ten times faster than it is today. Ten >times faster than Deep Blue, easily. If it couldn't >consult its opening book, my result would improve >immediately. I think most of the top twenty, thirty >players could beat Beep Blue if it wasn't allowed to >consult an opening database. Or, even the opening >database is restricted to a certain size. What happens >is, their opening database is almost 400-500 MBs of >information. It has access to all the games that are >played but we have to remember all that. Or, if I am >allowed to have a computer with me, okay, I can't check >my thoughts but I can see what was played at any given >time. My result would then go up." > >I think he's wrong about having a computer ten time faster than Deep Blue >without the opening database. > >Still, what to make of the comment that the top twenty or thirty players could >beat Deep Blue if deprived of its open database? > >Roger I would agree. Anand is a good guy, but he doesn't know diddley about computers. Opening book does _not_ slow the program down. I have no idea where he got that. Probably based on the idea that if a human used a book, he would do a lot of page flipping and stuff..
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