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Subject: Re: Behind deep Blue

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 08:29:40 10/20/02

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On October 20, 2002 at 11:20:55, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 20, 2002 at 11:00:42, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>On October 20, 2002 at 03:41:56, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On October 19, 2002 at 21:44:49, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have just finished the book by Feng-Hsiung Hsu. In just a shot, from after
>>>>lunch to this time, meal time. Very interesting. You cannot stop he reading.
>>>>First big impression: if this guy and his team had worked just one year more on
>>>>Deep Blue, Garry has been crushed to ashes, to atoms. Yes, because once and
>>>>again Deep Blue appears as an uncomplete device full of bugs and problems,
>>>
>>>
>>>I am surprised that after this people still believe that it's evaluation was
>>>better than the evaluation of Deep Fritz of today.
>>
>>I'm surprised people still think it's evaluation was worse than Fritz of today.
>>But it doesn't matter - I think DB will never play again (stupid IBM), so
>>neither side can EVER win the argument.
>
>The main point is the following:
>"Deep Blue appears as an uncomplete device full of bugs and problems"

They did have a lot of bugs over the course of the development, but what does
that have to do with the quality of the evaluation?

>I do not believe that something that is full of bugs and problems can have
>better evaluation than Deep Fritz that was tested more seriously.

Almost all of the 'bugs' were not in the evaluation.

Should I say Fritz has big evaluation 'bugs' because it completely misevaluates
many positions?  Should that be cause to say Fritz has worse evaluation than
some other program(s)?



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