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Subject: Re: Is Deep Blue still considered better than Deep Junior ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 20:33:02 08/18/02

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On August 18, 2002 at 23:24:33, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 18, 2002 at 23:05:35, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On August 18, 2002 at 22:41:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On August 18, 2002 at 21:55:06, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 18, 2002 at 21:21:52, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 18, 2002 at 16:17:34, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On August 18, 2002 at 11:08:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On August 18, 2002 at 09:06:02, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>No for many reasons
>>>>>>>  a) deep blue is old and how many old programs are still considered
>>>>>>>     'good'?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Even programs that reigned the world for 10 years (genius) completely
>>>>>>>get butchered with x-0 scores nowadays.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Genius is not losing x-0 unless x is very small.
>>>>>>It is clearly weaker than the top programs of today but not so weak.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Uri
>>>>>
>>>>>against movei perhaps. Against DIEP it's 100% simply. 20Mhz preprocessor
>>>>>dedicated genius getting 7 ply with 1000 move book
>>>>>against 1 million move diep book getting 10-14 ply.
>>>>
>>>>I thought about genius on the hardware of today otherwise it is not fair to say
>>>>"Even programs that reigned the world for 10 years (genius) completely
>>>>get butchered with x-0 scores nowadays."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>It is software+hardware and not only the software.
>>>>
>>>>I agree that software+hardware of 10 years ago are losing x-0 against
>>>>software+hardware of today.
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't even agree with that.  I played Crafty vs Cray Blitz, using 1992
>>>hardware (a C90) and Cray Blitz won 7-3.  That certainly is _one_ example
>>>where Vincent's statement is false...
>>
>>
>>Vincent was talking about genius.
>>
>>Genius with the hardware of 1992 is losing 10-0 against the top programs of
>>today with 2002's hardware.
>>
>>How many games did Cray blitz with the 1992's hardware play in computer
>>tournaments?
>>
>
>at least 15.  We played in 1992, 1993 and 1994 ACM events...
>
>>
>>I know that it did not play in WCCC of 1995 when Fritz3 became the world
>>champion.
>>
>>I do not know about a single tournament that it played.
>>
>
>Now you do.  I just gave you three.  Last one was 1994 in Cape May New
>Jersey.  Won by Deep Thought.

I understand that it played only a single game against deep thought
and a program may lose a single game and be significantly better than the
opponent.

I believe that it was signifcantly better than deep thought inspite of the
single loss.

Uri




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