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Subject: Re: Anand comment about Deep Blue

Author: george petty

Date: 16:54:06 01/13/00

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On January 12, 2000 at 15:50:17, Frederic Friedel 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
>>
>>Well said rajen
>>
>>A complete list of games as a database of kasparov's games would have been
>>available to the computer for determining the style, weakness etc..
>>
>>raj
>
>Greetings Raj 'n Raj. I have seen this many times. Kasparov, Anand, Leko and
>others always start off badly against any new engine I give them, then they
>improve dramatically. I remember Peter Leko with one version of Fritz. His score
>(in blitz) was something like minus 200 from the first few hundred games, but
>slowly he got the hang of it and in the end, after a few hundred more games, he
>had a clear plus score.

  Very true!  Good thinking and exceptional perception of GM's games.

    George



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