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Subject: Re: Deep Junior has proved that Hardware is way Over-rated

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 16:35:10 07/18/00

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On July 18, 2000 at 18:37:36, Pete R. wrote:

>On July 18, 2000 at 14:08:15, blass uri wrote:
>
>>There is a disagreement about this question.
>>The programmer of Deep Junior believe that Deep Junior can beat Deeper blue in >a match.
>
>Based on what?  I can say I think I can beat up Bruce Lee, primarily because
>he's dead. :)  We don't know how match-ready DB2 really was, maybe they got it
>tuned well enough just in time, and were lucky, but in reality it could have
>been much stronger.  It's meaningless to say you can keep tuning DJ but DB2
>would have to remain as it was, or some such.  Getting all your eval for free in
>hardware is still nothing to sneeze at.
>
>My question is still whether all those eval terms are needed to produce a
>championship level of play, or whether tuning of existing parameters in a
>program like Junior is enough.  If what you say is true perhaps the Junior team
>feels that is the case.  Certainly changing a single line of eval code could
>cause dramatic changes in playing style to appear (such as not giving up an
>advanced knight outpost for nothing), so perhaps modern programs do have enough
>terms and a little nudge here and there will avoid these bad positional moves.
>Since it looks like DB will never be resurrected, all the current programs have
>to do to show that they are just as good is to beat Kasparov at standard time
>control.  And stop playing "stupid computer moves". ;)

Not to mention what you said, but also geeze its been what, 5 years?  Think
about the speed increases on the PC.  I suspect that Hsu would be able to come
up with a simular increase in speed (2-4x?  Maybe 10x?)  And then this 2
billion-20 billion position a second beast would be pretty nifty.  Lets face it,
Deep Junior doesn't stand a chance against a modernized deepblue and to compare
differnt generations is just as stupid as the Fischer could beat Kasparov
arguments you also here.

Jason



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