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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