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Subject: Re: Anand comment about Deep Blue

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 11:37:13 01/13/00

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On January 13, 2000 at 10:17:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 13, 2000 at 06:05:23, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On January 12, 2000 at 14:45:13, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>>
>>>from the atrocious results of rebel vs grandmasters it is pretty clear that once
>>>humans get the feel of playing against computers or even a particular computer,
>>>they (ie humans)would get the better of computers.It is a fact that kasparov had
>>>no opportunity at all to evaluate deep blue while the reverse was not true.In
>>>all fairness kasparov should have been allowed a couple of weeks with deep
>>>blue-he would have identified the holes and blasted through them-just as the
>>>humans are now doing to rebel
>>>
>>>rajen gupta
>>
>>GK should not have been given a few weeks to play with DB prior to the match.
>>That's silly and obviously unfair. However, I think forcing GK to go into the
>>match cold was also unfair.
>>
>>GK prepares for matches by studying how his opponents played in previous
>>tournaments. IMHO, DB should have played in a few tournaments before taking on
>>the champ.
>>
>>But it's all a moot point now...
>>
>>-Tom
>
>
>Remember that DB Jr _did_ play in lots of matches prior to the Kasparov
>match.  Of course, many of those were DB-1 processors.  And the rest had
>DB-2 processors, but only one SP processor.  And then the problem would be
>that they were modifying the software right up to the match, which would
>make it play differently.  And they modified it during the match, which
>could make a hole found in game one disappear by game 2.

Mods were done after game 2, not after game 1.

Dave



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