Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:08:06 10/19/00
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On October 19, 2000 at 16:51:49, Albert Silver wrote: >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 I didn't understand the 28M number, but my screen was so danged busy scrolling all the nerdy comments from the 1000 people observing the game, that I didn't get a chance to ask him. 24 processors at >= 2M nodes per second per processor should be 48M. I assumed he typoed when he said 28M. It (DB Jr) was a holy terror against GMs in the many exhibitions they played prior to the final DB match. This machine would be less than 10x slower than the real machine. I would think it would be a handful for anybody.
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