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Subject: Re: Two of the Deep Blue moves protested by GM Kasparov

Author: Geo Disher

Date: 05:27:21 07/21/02

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On July 21, 2002 at 08:05:33, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 21, 2002 at 07:32:32, Geo Disher wrote:
>
>>On July 19, 2002 at 15:32:05, Geo Disher wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>So what?  Their scores didn't show any such thing.  The log showed that
>>>>they liked Qb6 less each time they drove the search one ply deeper, until
>>>>it got so low that axb5 had a higher score and they went with that.
>>>>
>>>OK it appears that no one has actually shown a current micro program that
>>>evaluates axb5 over Qb6 (at least with twicking some settings).  I am going to
>>>run my little 2.4ghz until it does (I hope).  It is currently very close using
>>>Fritz 6.  It currently shows .97 for axb5 and 1.0 for Qb6.  It has been going
>>>for only a few hours now and just like you said Blue did,  the two evals are
>>>getting closer and closer the longer it thinks.  I know people have done this
>>>before but maybe I can run this longer than some in the past using a faster
>>>computer and get a different result.
>>
>>OK after 56 hours the evals are exactly the same .88 for axb5 and Qb6.
>>Hopefully in another few days axb5 will surpass Qb6.
>
>It is not clear if axb5 is better than Qb6.
>I believe that it is not better.
>
>Uri

I realize this but I am betting that Deep blue understood this position better
than you Uri :)



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