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Subject: Re: Behind Deep Blue: 3rd print with new Hsu afterword ADDITION

Author: Ken Stone

Date: 04:10:53 05/10/04

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On May 10, 2004 at 01:15:00, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I read afterword in book store more carefully. And Hsu claims, that Deep Blue
>was positionally in own class in comparison to Fritz/Junior and even tactically
>better. But when Hsu has never played serious chess game himself I think his
>comments are almost useless even if he is super engineer/programmer.
>
>Jouni

He's both and engineer and scientist, and has knowledge of chess as well.
Many on the Deep Blue Project were very good at chess. I don't doubt his claim,
and I remeber the match, the machine showed tremendous skill and Kasparov
himself said Deep Blue in '97 played like a 2800 player.

Ken



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