Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 20:08:35 02/05/03
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On February 05, 2003 at 23:04:34, Will Singleton wrote: > >This was linked from Mig's column on the chessbase site. > >http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=memelist.html?m=4%23527 > >The author makes some good points, but the following is not supported by any >reference that I could find. > >"It is precisely in this area of applying pattern recognition to the crucial >pruning decision that Deep Fritz has improved considerably over Deep Blue. >Despite Deep Fritz having available only about 1.3% as much brute force >computation, it plays chess at about the same level because of its superior >pattern-recognition-based pruning algorithm." > >Does Fritz use a neural-net approach? Where did Kurzweil get this? > >Will This article sounds familiar. If it's the one I'm thinking of, I remember thinking the same thing. It seems like he had a deadline to meet or something, and "<top PC chess program> is better than Deep Blue" is always going to be a popular subject, regardless of the validity of the supporting facts.
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