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Subject: Re: Amir Ban will have his chance to prove that DB was NOT better

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 09:11:08 11/13/02

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On November 13, 2002 at 12:06:18, David Hanley wrote:

>Deep blue played a lot of games.  It blew over all the computers ( except
>fritz, one time ) in the ACM contests.  It played a lot of GM games and
>matches.

5 years ago. That means *nothing* today. What was the best computer
(DB not included) 5 years ago? What was common hardware in that time?

If you play the current best program on current hardware against that
combination, it's also going to blow it over.

>I don't think this put-down of DB is intended as an honest argument.

Amir has stated this repeatedly, even here, in the past.

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GCP



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