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Subject: Re: Behind Deep Blue book seems to be available now

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 00:40:41 10/01/02

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On October 01, 2002 at 01:30:26, Jouni Uski wrote:

>Any comments?

I skimmed through a lot of the book earlier tonight (just got it today from
Amazon, after ordering months ago :), while actually reading some of the more
interesting chapters.  I was a little disappointed in that it almost went out of
the way to be as non-technical as possible (regarding the DB machine as well as
about chess itself).  However, I do think it does a very good job at what it
sets out to do - namely, to explain some of the stuff that went on behind the
scenes.  It does give some tantalizing hints about some of Deep Blue's
evaluation and search, but it's doubtful whether the things hinted at in the
book will be able to help anyone else in their own programs.  The book also
(perhaps) answers some long-standing questions (and debates) about certain
things related to the play of DB, but I'm sure there will be more new questions
to be asked.



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