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

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 07:07:01 05/10/04

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On May 10, 2004 at 08:18:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

I agree: infinitely fast search and no positional knowledge would lead to
perfect play.

Come back Gilbert Ryle.........



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