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Subject: Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 22:23:46 02/17/02

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On February 18, 2002 at 01:08:49, Uri Blass wrote:



>I am not going to repeat my opinion about deep blue here
>
>only one comment:
>
>It seems that you assume in this answer  that software improvement to have
>better search rules than deeper blue are impossible.
>
>I disagree.
>
>I believe that a program can search less nodes and be better thanks to better
>search rules.
>
>x nodes of the programs of today are clearly better than x nodes of programs of
>1997 and x nodes of programs of 2010 are going to be better than x nodes of
>today.
>
>I believe that part of the improvement is better evaluation function but part of
>the improvement is also better search rules.
>
>Uri


I think you're missing one thing:

The makers of DB were *NOT* by any means idiots.  They actually developed and
perfected some of the technics used in todays (top) chess programs.  The
software side of Deep Blue is *no* worse than the software side of ANY program
currently on the market.  IMO.



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