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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 05:18:58 05/10/04

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On May 10, 2004 at 07:10:53, Ken Stone wrote:

>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

playing like 2800 player can be result of deeper search and not better
evaluation so the level of DB proves nothing about positional knowledge.

Uri



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