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Subject: Re: Elo of Deep Blue

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:52:02 03/15/01

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On March 15, 2001 at 20:10:30, Sonja Tiede wrote:

>
>From Bob Hyatt:
>
>>Where did you see that?  The only statement I ever saw Joel make was that
>>when asked how he did against DB while working on the book, he said "it killed
>>me badly" or something similar.  This was at a press conference in NY during
>>the second Kasparov match.
>
>>I don't think _any_ GM scored 60% against the thing in any match ever played
>>against it, or deep blue junior...
>
>
>i would bet, that every word J.Benjamin was blurbing about DB at a press
>conference was defined by contract between him and ibm
>
>Sonja


Maybe... but I had several conversations with him on ICC well after the match
was over...  He always said there (when someone would ask) that DB pretty much
had its way with him when he played it real games... although most of the games
he played were not "real" games.  He would make and take back moves during most
of the "test games".



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