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Subject: Re: Q&A with Feng-Hsiung Hsu

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 18:39:43 10/14/02

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On October 14, 2002 at 09:44:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>So it is clear his answer was very clear : it is 12 ply.
>
>So is it clear now?

No, it's 12 ply _in_software_, why that isn't clear to you, I don't know.


>Apart from that. For 18 ply you would need to see squareroot(40^18)
>nodes to search it using fullwidth. That's a minimal tree, excluding
>qsearch and other overhead.
>
>You really believed all that time that
>deep blue searched 40^9 = 262144000000000 nodes ?

The 18 ply is not full-width.  Don't be an idiot.

>It is very obvious now that one of the deep blue team members has
>spreaded misinformation to you and to Hyatt.

So now you're calling him a liar?  Vincent, I have heard more than
enough out of you over the years, but calling the guy a liar is
beyond pathetic.

>Note that they spreaded during the match more misinformation. For
>example they said that during the KRRPPP KRRPP endgame of kasparov,
>where deep blue managed to draw in a neat way,
>that deep blue played it perfect because the whole endgame was
>in its EGTBs.

B.S.  They never said such a thing.

Dave



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