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Subject: Re: I just finished "Behind Deep Blue" book: short comment

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 04:57:26 10/08/02

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On October 08, 2002 at 01:02:22, Jouni Uski wrote:

>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

Hsu seems incapable of getting to the painful truth that he missed the chance to
develop a clear mode for documentation 12 years ago. That seems unfair, injust,
but we must expect that from a scientist. So, that is why the moment of his
greatest success couldn't satisfy. Too many white areas in the map...

Rolf Tueschen



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