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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:47:18 07/27/00

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On July 26, 2000 at 21:26:09, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On July 26, 2000 at 15:27:36, Chris Carson wrote:
>
>>Just goes to show how much better the micro eval and search
>>algorithms are.  :)  TPR's speak for them selves.  96 DB
>>has fallen.  :)
>>Oh, try not to get to mad, but what position did HSU use to get
>>the NPS number, not that it matters for actual performance (we have
>>the TPR for that), but I would like to know?
>
>As I've tried to point out several times before, TPR != absolute strength.
>Until you can get <insert program name here> to actually play against Kasparov
>in a match and get an equivalent TPR _against him_, or can get DB to play
>against the same players from which ProgramX has gotten its TPR, so that a real,
>meaningful, comparison can be made, a TPR really means nothing.
>
>As for the position Hsu used for DB's NPS, it was just the average - the
>approximate number seen at all positions.  The math has been shown for this many
>times also... And you don't ask what position DJ got 2.5m NPS in? :)


Do you ever think this might be problem of "circumlocution"?

:)



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