Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:21:57 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 08:13:20, blass uri wrote: >On July 20, 2000 at 20:38:46, Chris Carson wrote: > >>http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/meet/html/d.3.1.html >> >>Best Regards, >>Chris Carson > >I see in the link that IBM decided that the program is Deep blue in february >1993. >I believed hyatt that the newspapers were wrong and that Fritz3 won Deep >thought. >I see that I was wrong and Fritz3 won Deep blue. No. The name of the machine IBM was _going_ to build was going to be Deep Blue. By the 1995 event, they were _still_ using the deep thought hardware, and were (for a while) using the name "deep blue prototype". If you check out the ACM literature of the time, you will find they said "this is the old deep thought hardware from 1992, but using some new search ideas that will be used when we finally assemble the first "deep blue" machine to play Kasparov. 1995 was definitely deep thought hardware... > >Deep blue has nothing to do with the hardware but with the software of February >1993. >The assumption that Deep blue is about hardware of 1996 is wrong by definition >of IBM. > >Uri Not at all. Hsu was hired by IBM to build a new chess machine that would beat Kasparov. The machine was first assembled in late 1995 or early 1996, not too much before the actual match happened. Prior to that, all they had was the deep thought hardware that was still located at Carnegie-Melon university according to Hsu's book.
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