Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 08:37:17 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 11:22:14, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 29, 2001 at 09:33:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 29, 2001 at 08:29:28, Erkki Malkamaki wrote: >> >> >>While the information is both good, and old, it won't help the argument. >>A few are not going to let some facts get in their way when they want to >>bash the machine or the "team" of developers... >> >>:( > >The only facts that can convince me is an anlaysis of the logfiles. > >Can you show me one main line of deeper blue >that the best chess programs need many hours to get? > >My analysis suggest that deeper blue is 2-3 times faster than >Deep Fritz pIII800 in finding some main lines. > >I am sure that if we analyze every position >that Deeper blue pondered for some hours on fast PC we can find >more positions when top programs find main lines that >begin in the same moves as the main line of deeper blue. > >The interesting question is what is the speed ratio in these cases >If the speed ratio is the same as the speed ratio that I found then >it means that deeper blue is not strong. > >If in most of the cases when top programs find similiar main lines >the speed ratio is at least 100 then it means that deeper blue >was probably stronger then my impression. > >Unfortunately I found only one volunteer to help me to >analyze the positions that deeper blue pondered and >I am not going to use more than 20 hours of computer time >per week to analyze. > >Uri These threads generally I read them a little but then I give up. Just because I do not understand the point of the discussion. So, this is the first time I will put my nose where I shouldn't In this case, what is your point or your hypothesis? is that Deep Blue was not good? (I cannot believe anybody will mean that but apparently some do, I guess) is that Deep Blue was as strong as todays engines in current hardware? what is it specifically? Regards, Miguel
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