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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:29:48 02/19/02

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On February 19, 2002 at 10:56:49, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Test your hypothesis.  Others already have and after a _week_ of searching
>they found exactly _nothing_.  60 plies is too deep for something that is not
>narrow and forced.  And even for something forced, 60 plies is very tough to
>touch except for what are often called "straightjacket" positions where both
>sides have one legal move for an extended period of time.
>
>You aren't going to find _this_ draw in 24 hours from the original position
>where they moved their king to the wrong square.  I don't care what kind of
>hardware you have.

Is it really 60 ply? The analysis on the Rebel site claims 36 plies.

Just for the hell of it, I'm letting ChessTiger 14.0 run for a few days
or so on my XP 1800 on this position.

It's at ply 20 right now. You know what's really interesting? It's
having a branching factor of LESS than 2 here.

--
GCP



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