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Subject: Re: Anand comment about Deep Blue

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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