Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:20:03 02/16/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 10:40:47, Tony Werten wrote: >On February 16, 2000 at 07:38:11, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > >>On February 16, 2000 at 02:51:43, Tony Werten wrote: >> >>>It tells the amazing story that DB jr was able to beat a 1895 ELO player and >>>could draw against a 2395 player. >>> >>>Tony >>Not only that,it also tells that DB jr was able to beat an IM, N.Stanec, >>rated 2463,and defeat also another player,I.Balinov,rated 2450. > >But isn't that what most of the prgrams do, nowadays ? > >>Recently people >>were writing here that DB jr is a weak player,below 2200,1 sec./move.This >>report shows that DB jr is stronger,maybe much stronger than people thought. >>Most likely there are many versions of DB jr. JAFM > >I'm quite sure DB is above 2200. Just don't know how much, and neither how >strong it is against other computers. > >Why ? Because they got lucky once (playing a worldchampion who didn't have a lot >of experience playing against a computer), they had a big marketing succes, and >now they can't afford to loose. > >Noticed that there aren't a lot of computerchess tournaments anymore ? If IBM >had told they got lucky, there would have been more. > >I don't think my program can beat DB ( actually, I'm quite sure ) but I do think >that DB doesn't have a change against the 10 best programs in the world. > >Just don't expect to see it play those 10 programs. > >Tony Exactly what would this be based on? Deep Thought dominated computer chess events for 10 years. DB is _much_ stronger. What would lead you to think that the 'best 10 programs in the world could beat it' now, when they couldn't do it for 10 years running? DT lost 2 games that I know of against microcomputers over a 10 year period. The micros lost plenty of games against DT. DT searched about 2M nodes per second, while Deep Blue was 100X faster, not to mention better.
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