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

Author: Derek Paquette

Date: 13:21:12 05/10/04

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On May 10, 2004 at 11:43:28, Frank Phillips wrote:

>On May 10, 2004 at 11:08:31, Ken Stone wrote:
>
>>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:-)
>
>
>Certainly superior play :-)

One could also argue it was the only man vs machine match kasparov wanted to win
and not draw,




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