Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:51:49 10/19/00
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On October 18, 2000 at 09:56:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On October 18, 2000 at 05:44:36, Andrew Williams wrote:
>
>>My apologies if this is old news.
>>
>>There was an account called DeepBlueJr watching Kramnik-Kasparov, game 6
>>on ICC last night. The finger notes said the owner was Murray Campbell
>>(a couple of the admins stated that it was indeed DeepBlueJr). I asked
>>him what exactly he was using and he said that it was a 24-processor
>>version attached to a R/6000. He said the processors were the same ones
>>that ran in the Deeper Blue that beat Kasparov. I asked him what NPS he
>>was getting and he said "looks like 28M" (!). I also asked him what sorts
>>of depths it was searching, but he didn't answer. Another thing he didn't
>>answer was my suggestion that he join CCT2 :-)
>>
>>The program wasn't kibitzing automatically like crafty does, but he was
>>occasionally cutting and pasting the analysis into channel 211. This was
>>around the time that Kramnik was on top, before the win seemed to slip
>>away from him.
>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>PS Just in case anyone was wondering, I asked him if he minded my reporting
>>this conversation here and he was quite happy for me to do so.
>
>
>I was surprised, too. But I did chat with him a good bit and am convinced that
>it was Murray. I will try to bug him a bit about CCT2, but I have a suspicion
>that IBM won't allow public exhibitions like that...
Really.... Wow. When he posted that, I was convinced some joker had set up the
pseudo as a prank. (Sorry about that Andrew)
Did you ask him about the tuning? Have they done any work on refining the eval
or is it unchanged from the time of the match? 28 million NPS... Wonder how much
that cuts in to the depths compared to its bigger brother.
Albert
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