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Subject: Re: Deep Blue and the

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 12:03:08 11/12/98

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On November 11, 1998 at 20:16:27, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>Having said that neither of you has gotten the name right (it was neither "Deep
>Blue" nor "Deep Blue Prototype", it was "Deep Thought II"), I don't think it
>matters what they called it.
>
>The version of Ferret that played in that tournament ran on a machine that's
>like 5x slower than the one it runs on now, it didn't know what a bad bishop
>was, it used null move R=1 instead of R=2, it didn't really think on the
>opponent's time, and it was out of book after 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4.
>Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4.

It has been argued privately that the difference between the beast that played
Fritz and the best that played Kasparov is quite a bit larger than this, and I
have no reason to doubt this argument.

bruce



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