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Subject: Re: Kasparov vs. Deep Blue at Correspondence Time Controls

Author: Mark Young

Date: 02:05:47 12/09/98

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On December 09, 1998 at 03:04:13, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>On December 08, 1998 at 23:15:09, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>Not at all, I just don't underestimate the depth of chess. And I know how all
>>computer programs find chess moves. And 1 Billion position a second is not going
>>to cut it at that time control. Not when each new ply is exponentially larger.
>>No program yet can select the few good lines and just search just them, like a
>>strong human play can do given 1 move per day. The program would be badly out
>>searched by Kasparov. One billion positions a second is not even a drop in the
>>bucket, given that level of play.
>
>My _belief_ is that Deep Blue is really good at searching the shit out of the
>really important variations, as compared to the fluff.

I don't think it is that much better then some of the other programs. If it were
I think it would have had a much higher level of play on the hardware it was on.
It beat Kasparov at 3 min a move in a short match, but not convincingly. And it
will only lose ground to Kasparov as the time controls get longer.

 I suppose it will take
>more than my belief to convince you of that, though. :-)  And justifiably so.

To bad we can not see a match between Junior 5 (5 days per move) vs Deep blue( 3
min a move). I think that match would be telling.

>
>I was interested by a comment Amir made some time ago, something like that he
>_knew_ that Junior extended more aggressively than Deep Blue did.  That isn't a
>direct quote, and I hope my memory hasn't retained a sentence meaning something
>different from what he actually said.  In any event, I imagine it would be easy
>enough for him to know if Junior extends moreso than the team did back around
>1991, when they published articles in the ICCA Journal.  What I wasn't sure
>about was how he would know that Junior extends more than their current
>software.  Did the printouts from Kasparov - Deep Blue lend credence to this
>assertion?
>
>Dave Gomboc



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