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Subject: Re: Which one was stronger Deeper Blue or ..........

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:32:05 01/13/03

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On January 14, 2003 at 01:44:30, Luis Smith wrote:

>On January 13, 2003 at 22:06:44, Terry McCracken wrote:
>
>>On January 13, 2003 at 19:08:23, stuart taylor wrote:
>>
>>>Let's get it over with already, (all this DB worship)!
>>>I'm sure we can already say that whichever comes at the top of the ssdf (When
>>>Deep junior/Junior 8 gets tested, and with necesary correction patches), and if
>>>you put that program on the best, but regular hardware, I think we can well
>>>assume it has gone a bit over the DB which embarrassed Kasparov.
>>>I think we can finally safely assume that this multi-million dollar enterprise
>>>which made headlines everywhere, is already exceeded with our bedroom (or living
>>>room) furniture. It was normally 2 years between top existing machine, and level
>>>of what is commercially available. This will now be a clean 6 years.
>>> How much more can we dream?!
>>>
>>>I think that it's safe to say that top commercial computer chess strength has
>>>absolutely outclassed itself atleast twice since then. We have gone from Hiarcs
>>>6 on 266 Mhz. to Fritz 8 on about 2.7 Ghz. I really don't think that deeper blue
>>>would pose any real threat today. OK, it might be very near the top, maybe
>>>second or third, and might stay around there for a couple more years due to its
>>>speed challenge. But what we have now, overall, is surely better.
>>>S.Taylor
>>
>>Where's your data to support your claims?
>>Stuart, you haven't a clue what you're talking about, and you know it...or you
>>should!
>>
>>Without concrete data, you're talking through your hat.
>>
>>Terry
>
>Say for instance, Fritz 5.32 and Shredder 7 played a series of games.  Fritz
>5.32 was on a Deep Blue's hardware and Shredder 7 had an 8xprocessor computer
>with each processor running at 1 ghz.  Despite Shredder's increase in knowledge,
>I would still pick Fritz 5.32 to win simply because of the vast searching power.
> I myself using Fritz 7 on the playchess server have played against a Fritz 5.32
>on a Dual AMD MP 2200 against my P III 1ghz, despite having a better book and
>newer software, he still tore me to peices...
>
>I think Deep Blue has an edge over an 8x processor commercial engine...I think
>you all underestimate searching power, I think Deep Blue will be well ahead of
>its time for even 2-5 years to come...but then again I know absolutely nothing
>about chess programming and am probably wrong ^_^
>
>Reguards
>Luis

Yes

I think that you forget some important things.

1)The games that you play are blitz and on blitz better knowledge is not
important.

I suggest you to try 120/40.

2)I doubt if shredder has better knowledge than other programs.
There are a lot of positions when Fritz's evaluation is more realistic.

3)There are logfiles of the game and I found nothing impressive there(I do not
know about a single idea that programs of today needs hours to find).

My impression based on the games is that deeper blue was not better in tactics
than the programs of today.

I think that you are overestimating the searching power of deeper blue.

Uri



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