Author: Roger
Date: 20:46:45 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 23:18:02, stuart taylor wrote: >On January 11, 2000 at 22:57:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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.. > >He didn't mean that! He meaned IF it didn't have access to its database >then-even if it be ten times as fast etc. Still---------etc. >That's what it looks like he meaned to say. >S.Taylor I think you're right, Stuart. Makes more sense that way. Now, however, I'm just as amazed as before, but in the opposite direction: How could he defeat a computer ten times faster than Deep Blue? He seems very confident to me. Tiger plays without an opening book, right? (perhaps it has a minimal book of a few moves, I don't know) It seems to do okay. Now put Tiger up to Deep Blue speed. Roger
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