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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:47:19 02/18/02

On February 18, 2002 at 08:57:47, David Dory wrote:

>On February 18, 2002 at 06:35:53, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>I do not think that all of the programmers of today are stupid.
>>I guess that they found better ideas.
>>
>>Uri
>>
>
>Better ideas? That's a relative thing, and we have no way to really compare
>their ideas (on DB's hardware and software), with ideas used in Rebel, Fritz,
>CM, ChessTiger, etc., on a PC, except in a very artificial and abstract way.
>
>I believe in each case, the programmers found ideas that were APPROPRIATE for
>their system. After all, the GREAT idea's of today, would have been disastrous
>to implement on a Fidelity Chess Challenger running with a Zilog Z80 CPU at a
>BLINDING 4Mhz.
>
>The reasons DB would still be kicking ass today, were it still around and being
>updated, are:
>
>  1) Hsu and his team had a history of creating a fantastic chess computer, DT.
>     For all intents and purposes, they really had a doctorate in chess computer
>     science!
>
>  2) They used the considerable resources IBM gave them, not just for software
>     improvements, but to build a bunch of custom high speed micro-chips and
>     integrate them into the fastest chess computer of all time. (so far :-))
>
>  3) After a long time working out the bugs, they brought in GM Joel Benjamin
>     to fine tune the openings, etc.
>
>How many other developer's do this, to this extent, Uri?
>
>It isn't just that Hsu & team were brilliant, or had a TON of resources, or had
>such sensational experience building a custom chess computer. It was all these
>things together, and I believe the whole was equal to more than the sum of the
>parts, which were considerable, in this case.
>
>If you had several million to invest in a new fantastic chess playing computer,
>wouldn't you do what the DB team did?
>
>Dave

No

I believe in pruning rules and I would use the money to find better pruning
rules.



Uri

Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Robert Hyatt 11:24:18 02/18/02
- Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Uri Blass 12:33:14 02/18/02
  - Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Robert Hyatt 20:02:49 02/18/02
    - Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Uri Blass 22:30:42 02/18/02
      - Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Robert Hyatt 07:56:49 02/19/02
        
        Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Gian-Carlo Pascutto 13:29:48 02/19/02
        
        Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Robert Hyatt 20:19:06 02/19/02
        
        Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Uri Blass 08:26:51 02/19/02
        
        Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Robert Hyatt 11:13:36 02/19/02
        
        Pruning Gian-Carlo Pascutto 12:40:33 02/19/02
        
        Re: Pruning Robert Hyatt 14:00:18 02/19/02
        
        Re: Pruning Uri Blass 21:27:36 02/19/02
        
        Re: Pruning David Dory 15:30:25 02/20/02
        
        Re: Pruning Uri Blass 00:46:37 02/21/02
        
        Re: Pruning Robert Hyatt 11:34:00 02/20/02
        
        Re: Pruning Uri Blass 12:14:07 02/20/02
        
        Re: Pruning Robert Hyatt 12:50:21 02/20/02
        
        Re: Pruning Gian-Carlo Pascutto 14:36:46 02/19/02
        
        Re: Pruning Robert Hyatt 20:27:00 02/19/02
        
        Re: Pruning Gian-Carlo Pascutto 23:48:16 02/19/02
        
        Re: Pruning Robert Hyatt 08:51:05 02/20/02
        
        Re: Pruning Gian-Carlo Pascutto 10:05:48 02/20/02
        
        Re: Pruning Robert Hyatt 11:03:24 02/20/02
        
        Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Uri Blass 12:01:21 02/19/02
  - Re: Questions for Mr. Hyatt about Deep Blue Uri Blass 13:02:51 02/18/02

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