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Subject: Re: But Not Yet As Good As Deep Blue '97

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:52:23 07/20/00

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On July 20, 2000 at 13:01:58, blass uri wrote:

>On July 20, 2000 at 10:58:34, Chris Carson wrote:
>
><snipped>
>>I do not expect you to ever admit a mistake or that someelse
>>might have a valid point.  I have never seen that.  I do see that
>>96 DB is a dead issue and you try to prove 97 DB 90% supriority
>>based on DT vs 386 and 486 machines.  This is just plain not valid.
>
>I agree.
>Hsu did not want people to believe that Deeper blue has 90% superiority.
>
>Hsu did not want people to believe that Deep thought can get more than 90%
>against Fritz3.
>
>If we assume that Deep thought could get more than 90% against Fritz3 p90(at
>tournament time control) then hsu could convince people about it by doing public
>games between Deep thought and Fritz3.
>
>He could know that people have the impression that Deep thought is weak after
>Deep thought lost against Fritz3 and drew against wchess(p90)
>He did not try to prove to the public that they are wrong and previous games are
>not proof because deep thought did not play against a lot of commercial programs
>on good hardware and I cannot learn much from results against not commercial
>programs that may lose in part of the cases because of bugs.
>
>The reason for the fact that Hsu did not try to prove that Deep thought was
>strong may be one of the following:
>1)Deep thought was weak.
>
>2)He wanted kasparov to believe that deep thought was weak.
>
>In the second case his behaviour was bad because he tried to use psychological
>tricks to win kasparov(I do not think that kasparov could learn much about
>Deeper blue from watching many games of Deep thought because Deeper bluer was
>clearly different but kasparov could avoid wrong assumptions that lead to bad
>preperation in this case).
>
>If he wanted kasparov to believe that Deeper blue is weak than he deserves that
>people will think that deeper blue is weaker than it really was.
>
>I see no reason to believe the more than 90% against Fritz3(p90) when I saw no
>proof for it.
>
>Uri


I see no reason to doubt the results.  Doing so is directly calling Hsu,
Campbell, Hoane, etc "liars".  I know them to be better than that...



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