Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:27:35 01/13/00
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On January 13, 2000 at 17:21:39, Rajen Gupta wrote: >> >>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 Or rather than re-writing history, you might discover that DB didn't exist in the 480-node version until right before the match. Wait for Hsu's book for details. >> >>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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