Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 19:44:58 12/08/98
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On December 08, 1998 at 03:58:24, Mark Young wrote: >On December 08, 1998 at 03:05:25, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On December 07, 1998 at 22:01:35, John Wentworth wrote: >> >>>What is the largest # of moves in a single game between two chess engines that >>>people have witnessed. It would be interesting to hear of some long games and >>>maybe a PGN of them. >>> Seems like the quicker the time frame the more moves will be made. I'am >>>guessing because of mistakes made. I just finished watching this long game which >>>was because of a lot of inaccurate play I'am sure. I was glad it blitz and not >>>40/2! >>At 40/2 there are a lot fewer crappy games. The faster the time control, the >>worse the game -- (assuming the same opponents, in general). >>I hate lightning chess. I don't like blitz chess. I like the slowest time >>controls best of all (up to a point -- I can't wait ten years for a game to >>complete). >> >>I would like to see Deep Blue verses Kasparov at one day per move. At that >>scale, Deep Blue would see so far ahead, it would start to see things >>strategically. 256 million positions per second times 86,400 seconds would be >>2.2e13 positions examined. Now that would be an awesome game. > >It would be a trashing of Deep Blue. I would bet the farm on Kasparov. Even at 1 >billion position a second Deep Blue will only see a very few plys past what it >could see at 3 min a move. Where a strong human player will find the correct >line of play, and not be hit with the tactics they could not work out at 3 min a >move. No chance for any computer at that time control IMO. And would show how >much more improvment there is to go in computer chess. Personally, I think you're seriously underestimating Deep Blue. And yes, I'm well aware that typically computers perform less well at correspondence time controls. If I were to make a bet, it would be on Kasparov, but I'd know my money would be at risk. Dave Gomboc
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