Author: K. Burcham
Date: 06:59:07 04/10/02
Robert there have been so many comments about Deep Blue chess knowledge. the number three statement here is yours. are you refering to chess knowledge with this statement. 1. Deep Blue had 50x the knowledge of todays programs. 2. Deep Blue could beat todays programs on just the knowledge it had. 3. Fritz is not a "genius" in terms of smarts... DB knew much more about lots of things than it does... 4. Todays programs have a very small fraction of the knowledge Deep Blue had. Robert: A. do you say this because you feel no other programmer today has employed a Grandmaster to assist with this chess knowledge the way IBM did? B. are you saying this because you feel no other programmer today including yourself has the capability to program this chess knowledge into their program? C. are you saying this because you know it would take a huge amount of money to resource a Grandmaster over a long period of time to attain this chess knowledge, to have available for ones program. and because you know the programmers of today do not have this amount of money to budget towards this goal? D. it would seem that if this is a major issue with todays programs, then if one of the programmers were to employ a Grandmaster to help with chess knowledge, then one of todays programs could far surpass the competition in strength. do you agree? (i am aware of the hardware difference) 1997 IBM comments Deep Blue's "chess knowledge" has been significantly enhanced over the past 12 months through the efforts of team consultant and international grandmaster Joel Benjamin. Garry Kasparov is certainly a great chess player -- perhaps the greatest in history -- but the new and improved Deep Blue offers a challenge that even the world champion has yet to experience. Deep Blue's chess knowledge has also increased over the past 12 months. "We spent a lot of time, several months, working with a grandmaster, Joel Benjamin," states Campbell. "There are sometimes things that a grandmaster knows that are sometimes difficult to put into a computer program. We are working hard to get to know as much about chess as possible." Joel Benjamin worked briefly with the IBM Deep Blue team in their preparation for the match with Garry Kasparov in Philadelphia in February 1996, and has worked with the team coaching Deep Blue in preparation for the rematch since last fall kburcham
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