Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 13:31:40 08/07/02
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On August 07, 2002 at 15:00:41, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote: >According to www.kasparovchess.com todays programmers are divided in the >issue if todays PC programs are better equal or worse then Deepblue.It seems >a lot of european programmers dont believe the 1997 Deepblue was stronger then >todays best PC programmers(Hyatt thinks otherwise)(We may never know).But this >Match could be a Step.It may depend on things like how well the Softeware >handles Kingside attacks in closed positions (The Dortmund version (2000) had >problems with this;as I remember) The Kasparov vs. Deeper Blue match was slightly in Deeper Blue's favor. As I read in an article recently, IBM didn't necessarilly cheat, but they exploited every possible rule in their favor. The upcoming matches should be much more fair. Even if the computers win, I don't think it means anything in the "PC engines vs. Deep Blue" debate goes. Russell
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