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Subject: Re: What is the public's opinion about the result of a match between DB and

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:05:07 04/24/01

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On April 24, 2001 at 11:09:13, Jeroen Noomen wrote:

>On April 24, 2001 at 10:13:29, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>One ply difference tells a lot, that is true. But chessprogrammers have been
>developing the past 4 years and DB is still the same. That could also be a
>difference.
>
>F.e.: Maybe DB cannot stand an attacking program like Gambit Tiger. And when I
>look at DB's games I think it is positionally weaker than many top programs.


I think the other question is the issue... can GT withstand DB?  Remember that
in the original games played against commercial programs in 1997, DB was
crushing them all.  And it was crushing them all by playing kingside attacks.
That was Hsu's main criticism of Genius and Rebel.. they were totally oblivious
to the coming storm, until it hit.  The games were not endgames.  They were
middlegame crushes.  GT seems to be no better than anybody else at seeing
attacks against itself.  In fact, it often self-attacks by being too aggressive.
I think against DB that would be suicide.



>
>Of one thing I am sure: If DB and f.e. Gambit Tiger play on equal hardware, DB
>is going to be crushed.
>
>Jeroen

The concept makes no sense.  DB _is_ hardware.  There was never any plan on
being "equal".  The only match result we know about on nearly equal hardware
was the 40 games played by Hsu and Murray a few years back...  we all got
racked...








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