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

Author: Ken Stone

Date: 08:08:31 05/10/04

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On May 10, 2004 at 10:07:01, Frank Phillips wrote:

>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.........

If this is so, for sake of arguement, then it had superior positional play:-)



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