Author: Howard Exner
Date: 09:41:08 11/09/98
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On November 09, 1998 at 08:43:59, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 08, 1998 at 21:40:03, Howard Exner wrote: > >>Even in 1988-89 Deep Thought had lots of hardware advantage over its micro >>challengers. Here are two games that DT lost. I wonder how that machine then >>would do now? >> >>Who were the programmers of Mephisto and Plymate? >>The plymate game looks a bit odd to be a 40/2 encounter. Does anyone have info >>on the time control for that game? >> > > >Game 2 never happened. Don't know where it came from, or who posted it where >it was found, but that game was never played, at least at any ACM or WCCC >event. I downloaded it from the the DeepThought collection at that big games site from the University of Pittsburgh. The Mephisto game was the *only* game at an ACM or WCCC event that was >lost by DT to a micro-based program. Deep Blue "prototype" also lost a game >to Fritz in Hong Kong. > >But remember that during the period 1989-1994, when they played, they played >at least 5 games every year an sometimes 10 (when ACM and WCCC were both held >in the same year.) They lost two out of (lower bound) 50 games. You tell >me what the Elo system would say there? nearly +500 rating points? > >I'll try to figure out who plymate's opponent was as I have most game >bulletins from these events. But it certainly wasn't DT... It could have been some typo error. Something I would be interested in would be a book by Hsu and company on the entire Deep Thought/Blue project. Not just the technical stuff but any and all information on its conception, struggles, their comments on its games,anecdotes ... the works.
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