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Subject: Re: Deep Blue used the "Antihuman" strategy and the Speed up approach !

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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