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Subject: Re: Watching GK on espn now...

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 09:44:34 02/09/03

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On February 09, 2003 at 10:33:33, Tom Likens wrote:

>I'm confused, why wasn't Deep Blue a program?

Because its strength lie in its hardware. It had a software portion, but I'm not
even sure if the software part would play chess. If it did, it certainly
wouldn't be very good in software. It could basically have unlimited evaluation
terms for "free" in hardware, but not so in software. And it didn't do anything
particularly elegant as far as I recall, just a basic search, with some
extentions here and there. So Deep Blue the program, probably not in the top 100
of all time greatest chess programs.



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