Author: Mike Hood
Date: 07:59:12 04/09/02
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On April 09, 2002 at 09:51:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 09, 2002 at 06:28:34, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On April 08, 2002 at 22:59:34, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On April 08, 2002 at 21:48:25, Michael Vox wrote: >>> >>>>On April 08, 2002 at 20:24:03, Dann Corbit wrote: >>>> >>>>>And if he were going to face Deeper Blue instead of Fritz, which would he claim is the stronger?< >>>> >>>>He already stated at the initial press conference that he feels Fritz on current >>>>hardware is stronger than DB. >>>> >>>>This commone knowledge. >>>> >>>>Regards >>> >>> >>>That is utter horse-hockey. AKA marketing hype and covering himself in case >>>the unexpected happens and he loses... >> >>Do you know names of GM's who say after looking at the games of deeper blue >>against kasparov that Deeper blue is better? >> >>Uri > > >Who won the match? That is the important data. When another program does >the same in a 40/2hr match of 6 games, then we can talk... I agree with you in part, Robert. Deep Blue vs Kasparov, the score sheet speaks for itself. My main contention concerning Deep Blue is that it was not allowed to play more games against other grandmasters and (this would be more relevant in 2002 than in 1997) against other computers. This has led to bloated estimates of Deep Blue's playing strength. I am sure that Anand, despite being "only" the world's second best player in 1997, is a better anti-computer player, and a series of Deep Blue vs Anand games would have relativised Deep Blue's abilities. I have no criticism of Deep Blue as an entity, but I am very critical of IBM's use of Deep Blue. As soon as the matches against Kasparov were won they couldn't dismantle the hardware fast enough. "Let's quit while we're ahead". What were they afraid of? Evidently IBM weren't as confident of Deep Blue's strength as they claimed to be.
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