Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:31:49 11/09/98
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On November 09, 1998 at 12:41:08, Howard Exner wrote: >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. You won't have long to wait... he's been working on it for a while now... Bob
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