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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