Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Deep Blue's openings book (more)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:49:59 11/20/02

Go up one level in this thread


On November 20, 2002 at 10:48:26, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On November 20, 2002 at 03:29:50, Pavel Blokhine wrote:
>
>>What oepnings book Deep Blue used against Gary Kasparov and how many games it
>>had? Does anybody knows? In the sixth and last game, Deep Blue used a knight
>>sacrifice that few programs will have considered or made. And it made some very
>>human like moves all troughout the 6 matchs so may be Gary Kasparov was right on
>>his hints that there may have been some cheating from the IBM team.
>
>
>First, it supposedly had every machine-readable game ever played.
>
>Then it had a book something like the way I do books.bin in crafty, that is used
>to control
>the lines that the program can play to keep it out of unsuitable opening
>positions...
>
>The "guide book" was developed by several GM players working with the project.

By the way, it would _really_ help if you first did a little research before
making
such a statement as in your last sentence.  It is well-known that Nxe6 was a
_book_
move.  It is in many program books...

The cheating comment is absolutely way off base.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.