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Subject: Re: Dead Wrong!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 15:00:47 07/21/00

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On July 21, 2000 at 17:25:08, Ralf Elvsén wrote:

>On July 21, 2000 at 15:14:50, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>
>>
>>The point is the IBM site claims: DB (I quote)
>>
>>    "Deep Blue relies more on computational power and a simpler
>>    search and evaluation function."
>>
>
>Isn't this a statement intended for "the masses" ? How can you
>scrutinize every word and read a lot of technical meaning into it?

The text can indeed be interpreted in 2 ways. Good point.


>Do you believe everything you see on websites?

When it comes from one of the biggest companies of this planet the
answer is yes. Such companies can not afford to twist with the truth
certainly not when their goal is promotion.

Ed


>Ralf
>
>>A simple evaluation function. This is in contradiction with another
>>claim (I now quote you)
>>
>>    "And their claim of 8,000 adjustable eval terms is therefore
>>    bogus?"
>>
>>See above. This implies something else. Who made that "8000" statement
>>BTW?
>>
>>Ed
>>
>>
>>
>>>thought so...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>thought so...
>>>>>
>>>>>Nice to have someone that doesn't know anything about hardware declaring what
>>>>>Hsu could and couldn't do, _after_ he had already done it...



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