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Subject: Re: Looks Like Deep Junior's Dream Dortmund Is Over

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 08:14:41 07/12/00

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On July 12, 2000 at 11:05:57, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On July 12, 2000 at 10:52:44, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>On July 12, 2000 at 10:23:40, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>Hi Uri,
>>
>>You are wrong: There is only one thing to come up with better
>>moves in blocked positions: CHESS KNOWLEDGE.
>>
>>Give DJ a 1000 times faster machine and no extra knowledge and
>>it still will play moves like c4?? It doesn't KNOW what to do
>>in a blocked position and that is fatal.
>>
>>Van Wely-Fritz from the Dutch championship and Kramnik-DJ prove
>>that it still very easy for a strong human to make a computer
>>program look silly.
>>
>>But that is the paradox in computer chess: More knowledge would
>>avoid such losses, but slow the program down. And then it would
>>score worse against other computer programs, making people think
>>it is weaker.
>
>>How to solve this!?
>
>Give up comp-comp competition... it would force programmers to focus on
>things that really matters as now (and this has been true since day one
>in CC) they are forced to do well in comp-comp as this is the measuring
>rod a program is judged.
>
>I frankly believe that if there was no comp-comp competition nowadays
>programs would be more intelligent. But wait... comp-comp is fun too,
>don't abolish that!
>
>Ed

You kill me Ed.  :)  Rebel is great against other computers and against
GM's.  You have done a great job and produced a great product.  I say,
keep both and put pressure on you and all the other programmers/products
to improve.  Chess is Chess.  :)

Best Regards,
Chris Carson

>
>
>>Jeroen
>>
>>>It does not prove it because it is possible that Deep Junior could find better
>>>moves with faster computer and better search techniques.
>>>
>>>The question is what are the mistakes of Junior and if it can avoid them in
>>>slower time control.
>>>
>>>Uri



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