Author: blass uri
Date: 13:38:45 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 15:29:26, Robert Hyatt wrote: <snipped> >I could promise to let you use my quad xeon in a chess tournament, just as I >have done for Vincent several times. And someone higher-up here at UAB could >say "no" and "no" it would be. Beyond my control. If it is something that is not dependent only on you then you should not promise. You can say that you will let Ed to use your quad xeon only if somebody higher will not say no. <snipped> >>Whatever they say I don't believe this. When you do 7 million nodes per >>second 16.c4?? should be refuted within half a second. When this is not >>the case this says enough about the quality of the program. > >This _was_ deep thought. It was doing about 2M nodes per second in 1995, >according to Hsu. Whether it overlooked the tactic, or the extensions >made it think the move was not so bad at first, is impossible to say. I believe that lack of extensions made it think the move was not so bad. It needed to extend a line with Qh4-h3 and Qh3xh2+ and probably it had a rule not to extend wasting tempo lines so it could not see it. <snipped> >IBM might be hiding, to be sure. They did something no one else has done, and >which no one else is likely to do in the near future. After beating Kasparov, >what more _could_ they do? Any loss or draw of any kind would mar that >marketing gem. I think that getting more than 80% against top programs in a serious match is more impressive than beating kasparov. IBM lost the respect of many chess players because of the fact that they are hiding. If they can get more than 16:4 against Deep Junior in 20 games match then they have a lot to earn. They will not lose nothing if they can beat Deep Junior only 15:5 15:5 against Deep Junior is clearly better than the expected result of kasparov against it based on Deep Junior's performance. Uri
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