Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 20:15:38 12/25/01
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On December 25, 2001 at 18:24:39, Tina Long wrote: >On December 25, 2001 at 12:27:51, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>On December 25, 2001 at 12:12:51, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On December 25, 2001 at 10:10:22, Jorge Pichard wrote: >>> >>>>The IBM team, meanwhile, has augmented the machine's hardware by adding parallel >>>>nodes, which double its effective processing speed, and by sending the software >>>>to "chess school" under the tutelage of Grandmaster Joel Benjamin. IBM also has >>>>made psychologically motivated changes--what one might call an "antihuman" >>>>strategy. For instance, the Deep Blue team has programmed the machine to prefer >>>>wide-open positions, even if they would otherwise be evaluated as slightly less >>>>promising than quieter continuation. >>> >>>How do you know it? >> >> >>The approach logic is as follow, let say that in the upcoming Human Vs Computer >>event ( Kramnik Vs Fritz 7 ) the game is even pisitionally or even with a slight >>advantage to Kramnik, but the computer has 5 minutes left to only 45 seconds to >>Kramnik, by using the Speed up approach Fritz 7 could play at a faster rate and >>force Kramnik to make a tactical blunder, whereas the computer chances to >>blunder would be minimum or the game could be decided by time. >> > >Hi Jorge, >I too was interested to see your source for the "psychologically motivated >changes--what one might call an "antihuman" strategy.", but you havn't answered >that question. > >You have answered as if Uri's question concerned speeding up during time >trouble. > >Was your first paragraph a direct quote from the IBM pages, or your own theory? > >Thanks >Tina Long Sorry for not referring the website where I got this quote from, yes it was from the IBM pages of game number 1. http://www.sciam.com/explorations/042197chess/050597chesscom.html#game1 Jorge
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