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Subject: Re: Anand comment about Deep Blue

Author: Rajen Gupta

Date: 14:21:39 01/13/00

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>
>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.

If Ibm were so confident they should have allowed kasparov to evaluate deep blue
along with its potential mosdifications-they didn't because they wanted to
spring a surprise!

rajen gupta
>
>So his position there is really not tenable.  games wouldn't have helped
>a bit.  I'd love to play him a 6 game blitz match on ICC.  And I'd happily
>give him 100 games from Crafty played 3-6 months ago for him to study.  The
>program isn't the same today as it was 6 months ago.  Holes that were there
>are gone.  Holes that weren't there probably are now.  Making a match plan
>based on old games would be foolish.  Just as foolish as making a match plan
>based on how Fritz played.  We _know_ how badly that backfired.  :)  Game 6
>showed that he who plans based on fritz, dies by the plan based on Fritz.


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>:)
>
>Bob



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