Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:40:45 04/27/01
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On April 27, 2001 at 08:56:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 26, 2001 at 23:03:46, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On April 25, 2001 at 21:52:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On April 25, 2001 at 20:02:27, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>I'm nodding bigtime here. SE is good to solve testsets, but not near >>>>what recaptures and check extensions give. >>>>As far as we know Deep Blue only played 10 practice games of around 30 0 >>>>level against Rebel 8. >>> >>> >>>Actually we know a lot more than that. We know they played 40 games >>>as someone _else_ reported here after attending a lecture by one of >>>the team last year. The 40 game match ended something like 38-2 but >>>the original poster can give the exact quote. We also know it played >>>hundreds of games vs GM Joel Benjamin (DB Jr). And we know it played >>>dozens of exhibition matches against GMs at various conferences. I >>>watched it play Byrne 6 games at a supercomputing conference exhibit hall. >> >>40 games is what i get for diep within a day of testing with Jan. >> >>40 games of 3 hours a game or more. > >Then you have longer days there than I have here. I only get 24 hours per >day here in the US. In order to get 40 games of 3 hours a game per day you do not need more than 24 hours if you use enough machines at the same time. I guess that Jan has at least 12 different computers(10 different computers are enough only for 5 games at the same time and it means that the average length of a game needs to be at most 3 hours in order to get 40 games per day) Uri
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