Author: Jouni Uski
Date: 22:02:22 10/07/02
At first look the book seems to be a big disappointment: no circuit diagrams, no game logs, no formulas, not even game scores (except appendix). But still it was very interesting reading! Finally You get inside look what really happened in Chiptest/Deep Though/Deep Blue development between 1985 and 1997. E.g. one thing I haven't previously heard is conflict with Hitech project at Carnegie Mellon university: in Deep Though there was even some code direct from Hitech (but without Hsu's knowledge) - later it was totally removed. Also interesting is read, that e.p. move has totally taken almost half of year of Hsu's time to fix - he don't like that move... The famous 10-0 against best commercial programs by ONE SLOWED DOWN Deep Blue chip is explained as well (without games) - they used in 1997 match 480 of them. And all he gets after 12 years of very hard work in New York match is ruining from Kasparov and as after game 5 "the crowd booed us". :-( Finally in the end of book is also comment about this year Kramnik match. This is direct quote: "Wladimir should win the match easily". Jouni
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