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Subject: Re: YOU´RE RIGHT, DB STILL IS KING

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 23:12:20 11/17/03

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On November 17, 2003 at 23:45:58, Carlos Lantigua wrote:

>On November 17, 2003 at 21:17:37, Kevin Heider wrote:
>
>>After watching Fritz not play either f5 or h5 in game 3, I have to say that
>>Deeper Blue (DB2) was the best chess computer EVER.  Even with a better
>>evaluation algorithm; Fritz at 4m nods/sec can NOT be as strong as DB2 at 200m
>>nods/sec.
>>
>>DB2 simply knew when it had to start mixing it up.
>>
>>I took the position from Move 37 of Game #2 of Deeper Blue vs Kasparov.  This is
>>the position where Gary claimed that someone (Karpov?) was feeding DB some of
>>it's moves.  Gary could not believe it when DB played Be4! blocking the black
>>e-pawn from advancing.
>>
>>I had Rebel XP start an infinite search on my DURON 1100MHZ and it took almost
>>20 hours to find 37 Be4! (The move Gary claims a computer would never come up
>>with)
>>
>>Granted different programs do different searches/evaluations, but if Be4 is as
>>positionally strong as Gary claims then a lot of programs should like it after a
>>very deep search.
>>
>>If I assume:
>>
>>1. Rebel / Fritz / Junior / Shredder are of roughly equal strength
>>
>>2. DB took 10 minutes to find Be4
>>
>>then I can conclude that X3D Fritz needs a better function or needs to run
>>(20hr*60m/10m) 120x faster to play at DB2 strength.
>>
>>Since I only own Rebel: Has anyone recently checked this famous position to see
>>if Fritz, Junior, or Shredder like the position after a deep think?
>>
>>Rebel XP's lines:
>>01:58:56  19.00  Qb6 Rxa2 Rxa2
>>08:14:57  20.00  Qb6 Rxa2
>>19:26:24  20.05  Be4 Rcb8
>>32:42:43  21.00  Be4 Rcb8 Ra6 Qc8 Qa2
>>
>>You will also notice on the right side of my screen grab that Rebel's 4th
>>favorite variation shows that if 37. Ra6 e4!  Qe3
>>
>>You can see a screen grab of the analysis at:
>>http://home.comcast.net/~kpheider/DB2BE4.GIF
>>
>>-- Kevin Heider
>
>GK-DB 97. That is what i call the last real and serious man vs machine match.

Of course Fritz is commercial and it is a significant handicap.

I believe that Deeper blue had no chance against kasparov in case that kasparov
had a copy of the machine before the match except opening book.

Uri



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