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Subject: Re: Robert------Deep Blue knowledge question

Author: Rafael Andrist

Date: 13:42:15 04/10/02

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On April 10, 2002 at 16:01:50, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 10, 2002 at 14:19:34, Rafael Andrist wrote:
>
>>On April 10, 2002 at 11:52:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>1. Deep Blue had 50x the knowledge of todays programs.
>>>
>>>I don't know that that statement is true.  I am certain, based on details
>>>that I learned by talking to Hsu at the last couple of ACM events, that they
>>>had knowledge that other programs did not have.  We had a giant discussion
>>>one night about opposite bishops.  A version of chess genius was playing
>>>(I think at least) and it was saying the position was a dead draw.  Hsu
>>>pointed out that it wasn't a draw at all and that "deep blue prototype"
>>>knew this.  He later showed us what it thought about how to win.  A GM
>>>had explained this to them a couple of years earlier and they had built it
>>>in to the program with good results.  They mentioned _lots_ of such special-
>>>case evaluation terms that were



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