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Subject: Re: Elo of DeepBlue

Author: Sonja Tiede

Date: 16:59:08 03/15/01

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On March 15, 2001 at 06:31:52, Terry McCracken wrote:

>On March 15, 2001 at 04:47:29, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>
>>On March 14, 2001 at 19:46:11, Sonja Tiede wrote:
>>
>>2800 +/- 600
>That absolutly makes _No_ sense whatsoever. It was Never as low
>2200 and never as High as 3400.
>
>Deep Blue was close to 2700 +/- _50_ FIDE and that was about it. No great swings
>in it's play like you suggest. Deep Blues' play was fairly balanced
>and was about 2700 FIDE. It did of course have amazing tactical albility
>based on search wich would _appear_ to make it look 3000+ in some situations
>and much less in very strategic positions, which closely combined strategy
>and tactics. Game One was a good example, and Kasparov _crushed_ it.
>While Game Six was _worthless_ as GK mixed up his move order on move 7 while
>in book. He for some reason thought he had played 7...Bd6, and on move 8 Black
>plays h6.
>
>T.M.


I agree with your opinion. (2700+- 50)

DB has played 12 games against Kasparov (2 matches) and its total score
was less than kasp. (the improvements from J.Benj. were small, because you
cannot impove the strength of a program easily by putting
a GM in front of the machine, telling him to make changes on some parameters)

Sonja





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