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Subject: Re: What are the Differences between Deep Blue and DJ match vs Kasparov ?

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 16:24:35 12/26/02

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On December 26, 2002 at 19:06:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 26, 2002 at 18:51:50, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>Kasparov was not allowed to study his electronic opponent's playing style prior
>>to the match. By contrast, Kasparov will be given a copy of Deep Junior  before
>>the start of the contest. This allowed Kasparov to prepare in a similar way as
>>he would for a match with a grandmaster - by analysing his previous games. Deep
>>Blue was also reprogrammed following each game, but will Deep Junior be allowed
>>too ?
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>
>Where did you read that kasparov will be given a copy of the opponent?
>
>I believe that kasparov is going to get only relatively old version of Junior.
>
>I think that the only way to let kasparov to prepare in a similiar way as he
>would for a match with a grandmaster is simply not to give him old version of
>the program(it mean no commercial or freeware against kasparov) but to let the
>new version of the program to play public games against GM's.
>
>Uri

Uri, why would Kasparov get an old version?

I'd say he's using Junior 8 Beta, and a few weeks after the match, Junior 8 will
be available from ChessBase.  I'll guess sometime around March;-)

Terry



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