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Subject: Re: DB2 is stronger thab DJ and DF, right????

Author: Terry McCracken

Date: 19:58:41 01/26/03

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On January 26, 2003 at 22:02:11, Thomas McBurney wrote:

>On January 26, 2003 at 21:37:27, Derek Paquette wrote:
>
>>AM I right to say this?
>>Have any GM's BESIDES kram and kasp (who don't count, they were in the match)
>>said any things towards this subject?
>
>Deep Thought II could search around 10 million nodes per second, and this is
>using hardware designed in 1985. Deep Blue, I think was around 100 times faster
>than Deep Thought.  Gary Kasparov easily defeated Deep Thought.  So given that
>DJ probably isn't even anywhere near as fast as Deep Thought II then I don't
>feel that it can compete with the likes of Gary.
>
>After watching the game today, I get the impression that DJ is broken.  The
>moves e5 and Re8 look like stupid moves and I cannot replicate these moves with
>any of my chess programs even after two hours of thinking.  Does anybody know if
>the DJ team has been fiddling with the program in preparation for the match?
>
>Cheers,
>Tom.

E5 was a good move, b5 wasn't, Re8 showed how desperate the position became due
to 13.b5??

Terry



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