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Subject: Re: Anand comment about Deep Blue

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:19:26 01/13/00

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On January 13, 2000 at 19:54:06, george petty wrote:

>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


That is a problem with a static engine and a dynamic GM.  If the 'programmer'
can watch this match, and adjust the program as the GM 'adjusts' himself to the
program, this likely won't happen.  Or it certainly will happen at a slower
rate.

It is _the_ problem that keeps me busy on ICC.



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