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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:50:12 11/15/02

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On November 15, 2002 at 18:03:29, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 15, 2002 at 10:41:55, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On November 15, 2002 at 10:27:12, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On November 15, 2002 at 01:02:52, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 14, 2002 at 19:57:02, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 14, 2002 at 18:07:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On November 14, 2002 at 17:20:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On November 14, 2002 at 12:57:19, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On November 14, 2002 at 11:26:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>On November 14, 2002 at 03:33:48, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On November 13, 2002 at 16:52:35, David Hanley wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>If you play the current best program on current hardware against that
>>>>>>>>>>>>combination, it's also going to blow it over.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>Against the kasparov, etc?  Well, well see.  But i expect that it won't >convince either camp.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>No. DB of then against the top of now. I suspect DB would get spanked.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>DB of then against the programs of then is another matter.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>--
>>>>>>>>>>GCP
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I'll change the metaphor a bit, but if by "spanked" you mean that DB's
>>>>>>>>>fist would get beat to a bloody pulp by the faces of today's micros" then
>>>>>>>>>I might agree.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>But _only_ in that metaphorical context.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>If it's only about metaphors, I think that computer chess is also a topic for
>>>>>>>>me. I have the concrete question if you could give us a comparison from the old
>>>>>>>>days. How would you compare the difference in strength between the actual
>>>>>>>>commercials and DB2 in giving the names of ancient programs? Could we say, CRAY
>>>>>>>>BLITZ against FRITZ 2 or what would you prefer?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Rolf Tueschen
>>>>>>>>I
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I am not sure what you are asking.  I don't personally have a lot of experience
>>>>>>>with older
>>>>>>>commercials.  The only experiment I ever ran caused a lot of ruckus in r.g.c
>>>>>>>(prior to the
>>>>>>>days of r.g.c.c) when I ran several games between a single-cpu Cray Blitz vs
>>>>>>>Chess Genius
>>>>>>>2 on the fastest PC of that day, which I think was a 486/66 or something
>>>>>>>similar.  It ended
>>>>>>>like the DB single chip vs the micros ended, except that I _did_ post the games,
>>>>>>>without
>>>>>>>posting the name of the opponent.  But someone (Chris Whittington I think)
>>>>>>>figured it out
>>>>>>>because it was a king safety debacle for the micro.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>All I can say about DB2 vs the micros is that it is about 200x faster.  That's
>>>>>>>more than enough.
>>>>>>>Null-move or not.  IE I wouldn't want to play a match Crafty vs
>>>>>>>Crafty/no-null/200x faster,
>>>>>>>myself, and that would not be a completely fair test since I know that DB did
>>>>>>>some things in
>>>>>>>their eval that I am not doing at present...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>1.Deeper blue was not 200 times faster than Crafty of today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hsu said in reply to the question about the number of nodes that
>>>>>>the 200M nodes were 200M total nodes and not effective nodes.
>>>>>
>>>>>So?  My 1M nodes is not "effective nodes" either.  Nor is the NPS for any "deep"
>>>>>program...  So 200x is right in the ballpark.
>>>>
>>>>For Deep blue the difference was clearly bigger because all of their
>>>>problems(not using hash tables in the hardware and loss of speed from other
>>>>factors).
>>>>
>>>>Uri
>>>
>>>
>>>Not necessarily.  Deep Junior doesn't hash in the last ply or two plus not in
>>>the q-search.  Do you think he does that because it is less efficient?  Or
>>>because it works _better_?
>>
>>Deep Junior use different algorithm
>>
>>I know that they did not hash and did not use killer moves in the hardware
>>because they had not time and not because it worked better.
>>
>>Uri
>
>
>So?  The point is that it is not clear that hashing way out there is better
>_anyway_.

It is clear that at least killer moves are better everywhere.
I think that it is also clear that hash in the last plies if you do not include
the qsearch is better(otherwise I could expect programs not to do it).

Uri



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