Author: Slater Wold
Date: 02:23:44 02/18/02
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On February 18, 2002 at 02:20:30, Uri Blass wrote: >On February 18, 2002 at 01:23:46, Slater Wold wrote: > >>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. > >I did not say that the makers of DB were idiots but I do not believe that they >are god and it is impossible to find better things than they found. > >The software side of Fritz5 is worse than the software side of Fritz7 and it >does not mean that the makers of Fritz5 were idiots. > >The software side of Fritz7 is worse than the software side of Fritz9 and it >does not mean that the makers of fritz7 is idiots. No no. You misunderstood. I never meant to imply you said they were idiots, I was just simply stating, they were not idiots. :) >I also do not know how can you be sure that the software side of deep blue is no >worse than the software side of any program currently of the market. How am I sure? Well, I'm not. But like I said, they developed and perfected technics that are being used TODAY. And DB's last game was several years ago. >Uri
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