Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:32:45 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 14:37:13, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Wasn't really saying they modified it period. I said they "could" modify it after any game where a hole was found, which would render old 'weaknesses' information obsolete... The point is that games played by a program 6 months ago probably don't say much about games played by that program today.
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