Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:48:57 10/11/02
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On October 11, 2002 at 04:08:49, Uri Blass wrote: >On October 11, 2002 at 03:22:46, Bradley Woodward wrote: > >>According to ICC's news 1646, on Sunday October 13, Feng-Hsiung Hsu (also known >>as Crazy Bird or CB) will be on ICC to answer your questions and discuss his >>work on >>Deep Blue. His handle is "CrazyBird". >> >>Could be interesting. Now my question is: after he's said "No - there was no >>cheating", how many people will believe him? >> >>The chat starts at 1pm, ICC server time, or delayed a bit if the Fritz - Kramnik >>match is still going on. > >1)Do people need to be ICC members to participate in the chat or >can guests also participate? > >2)Can somebody ask him about the real software and hardware depth of >Deep blue of 1997 to remove doubts about it. > >The questions are: > >1)What does 12(6) mean. >Does it mean 12 plies in the software+6 plies in the hardware >or total 12 plies. > >2)If he says 12 plies in software+6 plies in hardware then >next question: > >Did the software searched with no pruning. We already know the answer to this. The answer is "no". They have mentioned a few types of forward pruning several times now. > >3)If the answer is positive than how it is possible to do it. >It is impossible for programs to search 12 plies >with no pruning in normal middle game positions when >they search 500,000 nodes per second. > >126,000,000 nodes per second is clearly more than 500,000 >nodes but only 252 times bigger and it does not seem enough >to search 6 additional plies to the impossible 12 plies. > >Uri
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