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. > >:) > >Bob
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