Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:53:16 07/21/00
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On July 21, 2000 at 15:09:13, Amir Ban wrote: >On July 21, 2000 at 10:58:47, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On July 21, 2000 at 03:08:09, Ed Schröder wrote: >> >>> >>>The IBM pages are full of claims, here is one: >>> >>> "Over the years, Chiptest evolved first into Deep Thought, then >>> into Deep Blue, the most powerful chess-playing computer ever >>> constructed." >>> >>>This was written in 1997 while another program was world-champion >>>in that period (1995-1999) nota bene beaten in a direct confrontation. >>>I call this kind of information misleading, softly speaking. >> >> >>It isn't misleading at all. It was certainly factual. Could Fritz search >>a minimum of 200M and a max of 1000M nodes per second? If not, then IBM could, >>and clearly that was the most powerful machine around that played chess. Power >>doesn't mean "best chess player" although they could easily make that claim as >>well and experts in the field wouldn't dispute it. >> >> > >Experts in the field ? Wouldn't that be us, by chance ? > >Or do you mean there's a group of distinguished and knowledgable experts >somewhere who *really* understand computer chess ? As opposed to us, perhaps. > >Amir Would you like a list? Yes, I would include you. And about 50 other people that I can name off the top of my head from Monty Newborn, thru David Levy and Don Beal, to the author of every program that has participated in a computer chess event. I can't imagine that the overwhelming favorite of such a group would be Deep Blue. Except for those prejudiced by things unrelated to computer chess itself. DT/DB proved itself over and over. It's too bad it isn't still around, so that these silly discussions would be moot. Unfortunately, everything doesn't work out like it "should" at times...
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