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Subject: Re: It is strange but Kasparov has not made any comparison of DJ and DB

Author: Gawril Markov

Date: 01:11:42 02/13/03

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On February 11, 2003 at 11:13:38, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>I have read in more than one occasion where Kramnik made a comparison between
>Deeper Blue and Deep Fritz, but what is strange so far is that Kasparov hasn't
>made any comparison between Deep Junior and Deeper Blue yet. What is he afraid
>of, that if he say that Deep Junior is as strong as Deeper Blue, people are
>going to argue and support the fact that Deeper Blue beat him back in 1997 and
>Deep Junior could NOT? It would be nice to hear some comparison based on his
>experience with both monsters.
>
>Pichard

Here is what Kasparov writes in the "Wall Street Journal", February 11:

In the past five and a half years, new programming technologies have combined
with superior chess knowledge to create a quality of machine chess that is far
superior to that of Deep Blue.

(...)

Yes, Deep Blue was 100 times faster, but so what? Sheer power means little in
chess because it is a mathematically near infinite game. The only way to measure
the strength of a chess-playing computer is to analyze its moves. While putting
Deep Blue's six games to the test with current top programs - Deep Junior and
Deep Fritz - we discovered that they consistently play better than Deep Blue.
The only exception is when Deep Blue showed a stroke of genius in one game (when
I suspected certain interference).

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