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Subject: Re: Some facts about Deep Thought / Deep Blue

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:56:04 08/30/01

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On August 30, 2001 at 17:38:05, Uri Blass wrote:

>
>No
>There is a definition of a micro and it is not about speed.
>using more than one processor is not a micro by definition and the meaning of
>the WMCCC was always championship of programs who use only one processor.
>

I assume you know that the ICCA came out of the dark ages this year and
allowed multiprocessors in the WMCCC event?


>I disagree that Deep Fritz needs to beat kramnik in order to prove that it is
>better than deeper blue.
>
>The conditions are not the same and kramnik gets the program before the match
>when kasparov had no information about deeper blue.
>
>Note that the claim that deep Fritz is better than deeper blue is supported by
>evidence.

Please cite the evidence.  I have given plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Deep Thought performed better against human GM players than Deep Fritz has
done to date.  And deep thought was but a tiny part of what Deep Blue 2 was.






>
>You can say that the evidence does not convince you but it is a fact that deeper
>blue was only 2-3 times faster than Deep Fritz in finding similiar lines
>in few positions that comparison was possible.
>
>I investigated only a small part of the positions of deeper blue-kasparov and
>I am going to change my mind only if I find significant number of cases when
>Deeper blue is at least 100 times faster then top programs in seeing similiar
>thing(the full main line does not need to be the same but at least the first
>plies in the main line need to be the same).
>
>Uri



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