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Subject: Re: A new Deep Blue ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:51:32 07/31/01

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On July 31, 2001 at 15:10:47, Joshua Lee wrote:

>
>>If their evaluation numbers were so wrong, and their search was so weak, _I_
>>for one wish I could make those same mistakes.  What other program has come
>>close to beating a current world champion in a match?  Particularly when it
>>was obvious that Kasparov wasn't "playing for a draw in any game."\
>
>
>Since Deep Blue isn't around playing games these days the only "Real"
>Competition That is on the level of DeepThought or Blue would be Cray Blitz.
>How does CB compare to the Deep's? I know DT could be searching 10Ply find a
>move but a regular Fritz might take 20+ ply I am guessing that CB is closer to
>the Deep's than your average program ...  What kind of differences between Cray
>and Commercials are there in eval "IF"  that's a BIG "IF" eval is the main
>difference between the two. Same goes for Deep Blue some think Deep Fritz is as
>good if not better if running at 200Mnps but i can only listen to all the sides
>and look at the evidence which Deep Fritz is better if you look at the logs
>...... I can't agree with this as the logs are weird and Amir Ban couldn't make
>any sense of them
>
>Not to be a conspiracy theorist but If IBM said they didn't have the logs (for
>Kasparov) then they come up with logs how can we know that they weren't created
>or doctored???

IBM never said they didn't have the logs.  They said they were hard to read.
They were correct.  I saw DT run for many games.  Its output was messy and
hard to read.

They cleaned them up and released them...



>
>The only way to really know is to Play against it or know how it ticks and i
>don't know if Hsu is going to ever tell but i bet that Kramnik will hear from
>IBM after he smokes Deep Fritz (I think he's gonna start smoking again)



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