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Subject: Re: Junior better understanding of chess than Deep Blue

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:13:11 01/12/03

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On January 12, 2003 at 11:05:32, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On January 12, 2003 at 03:43:46, Jeroen Noomen wrote:
>
>>On January 11, 2003 at 14:32:08, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>
>>>Any software program of today outsearches positional Deep Blue of course,
>>>this is clearly the case.
>>>
>>>also we both know that in 1997 programs knew shit from endgames nor middlegame.
>>>That's quite some difference now. In 1997 i remember that beancounters (and DB
>>>was a very good beancounter for its time) did pretty well.
>>
>>As I was trying to say: We know a lot, we speculate a lot, but there is only one
>>method to find out if Deep Blue is worse than the current programs: They have to
>>play matches.
>>
>>In other words: I don't take words as facts. Only scores.
>>
>>Jeroem
>
>I'm not so sure. Of course I'm on your side in the argument with Vincent but
>matches alone might not be satisfying enough. Especially in short exhibition
>shows we have some factors that could be clouding our view. The same now in the
>Kasparov match if it really takes place. The shortness allows the operators to
>manipulate or, let's speak it out, - to gamble. As to prog vs prog matches I do
>fully support Bob's argument that 100x kills!


There is an assumption that it is 100x but
I doubt if that assumption is correct.

Maybe it was only 20M nodes and claiming 200M nodes was part of the
psychological war against kasparov.

Uri



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