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Subject: Re: Deep Blue Clone?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:41:50 06/20/01

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On June 20, 2001 at 08:42:03, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On June 19, 2001 at 18:40:45, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>
>>On June 19, 2001 at 13:32:54, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On June 19, 2001 at 13:27:22, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>Deep Blue had 4000 tunable parameters in the eval.
>>>>How many does the "Deep Blue Clone" have?
>>>>
>>>>This isn't even an apples to oranges comparison.  It's apples to orangutans.
>>>
>>>It's amazing. There are actually people that have come
>>>to FICS and asked me whether FriarTuck was running on
>>>DB chess chips or whether it was a software implementation.
>>>
>>>ITS CRAFTY FOR CHRYSTS SAKE!
>>>
>>>It's not Deep Blue. It doesnt even do SE the same way DB did.
>>>
>>>It's got NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH DEEP BLUE.
>>
>>Still, I see a paralell. It uses SE. Come on, let's be honest, it is practically
>>Deep Blue!
>
>Ferret is also using SE, as Bruce told us. So, we have aleady 2 Deep Blue
>Clones.
>May be, there is a real lot of them.
>
>Yes, the world is full of clones and clowns.
>
>Uli
>>
>>Bas.


Yep.  Dave Kittinger also used them in recent versions of Wchess.  Lang
used them starting in genius 2 I believe.  Vincent always said "SE sucks"
but he now claims to be using them as well.

Before long it will be possible to use one of several programs to make a
"DB Clone" if you believe in such nonsense. :)



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