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Subject: Re: Faster, deeper and more of such...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:40:37 09/14/00

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On September 14, 2000 at 14:42:28, Dan Ellwein wrote:

>On September 14, 2000 at 14:39:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 14, 2000 at 14:36:41, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On September 14, 2000 at 14:33:49, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>On September 14, 2000 at 14:30:07, Dan Ellwein wrote:
>>>>[SNIP]
>>>>>I guess it would be impractical to run this test with opening book disabled...
>>>>>
>>>>>(startin' with the very first move have the computer think on its own)...
>>>>>
>>>>>but i wonder what the data would look like if you did...
>>>>>
>>>>>it may be that there would not be a cut-off at iteration 19...
>>>>
>>>>My guess is that in the first ten moves no program on earth can get to ply 19
>>>>unless it does a ludicrous amount of speculative pruning.  Even 16 plies would
>>>>be formidable.
>>>
>>>
>>>We are close.
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>
>>DB was "there" in 1997.
>>
>>:)
>
>Bob
>
>What would it take to get Deep Blue up and running and give us some data
>comparable to what Ed has done here...


Several million dollars, an act of congress, and divine intervention, I am
afraid.  The several million dollars part is the _easiest_ of the required
events.  :)

We do have some data for 6 games vs Kasparov.  Someone could hand-compute the
above for DB using that data, and get a rough approximation of what kind of
'change expectancy' it had for each additional ply.



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