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Subject: Re: Tiger against Deep Blue Junior: what really happened.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:39:55 07/26/00

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On July 26, 2000 at 08:51:33, blass uri wrote:

>On July 26, 2000 at 07:27:23, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>Here is a page I found about Deep Blue:
>>
>>http://www.byte.com/art/9707/sec6/art6.htm
>>
>>It seems to be quite good, and explains many things in clear detail that have
>>been argued in this thread (and others).
>
>I cannot take the page seriously when I read these words:
>
>"During a match, Deep Blue typically searches a stunning 30 plies deep when
>evaluating the outcomes of po ssible moves. According to Hsu, it can search 75
>plies deep when not bound by a game clock. By comparison, a program such as
>Chessmaster 5000 searches 11 or 12 plies deep during a tournament."
>
>
>Uri


That is a correct statement, however.  If you search a minimum of 16 plies,
a maximum of 45 plies, what is the 'typical case'???  That is all it is
saying... that along the important branches it is probing 30 plies deep.

Shoot, in my 12 ply searches I probe 48 plies deep, and have even hit 64
and blown arrays before.  That is not amazing.  Comparing it to chessmaster
and 11-12 plies is not quite right of course...  as that program _also_ extends
the searches a lot...



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