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Subject: Re: Behind deep Blue

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:29:58 10/22/02

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On October 22, 2002 at 12:09:10, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 22, 2002 at 11:54:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On October 21, 2002 at 19:18:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On October 21, 2002 at 18:24:44, martin fierz wrote:
>>>
>>><snipped>
>>>>judging from the games, DF certainly didn't seem to be "much better than DB",
>>>>which at least didnt produce such ridiculous moves as DF did :-)
>>>
>>>Deeper blue played a ridiculous move in the first game
>>>of the match against kasparov because of a bug.
>>
>>
>>What move was "ridiculous"??  Deep Blue could have _easily_ won that game with
>>any tiny
>>error by Kasparov, after the sac...
>
>I am talking about game 1 of the 1997 match.
>Deeper blue played arandom move because of a bug in that game.
>
>Uri

It wasn't a "bad move" in the context of "it changed the result of the game"...

"random" != "ridiculous" unless it is bad enough to cause a problem later...  I
don't
think it did in that game...



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