Author: KarinsDad
Date: 20:25:38 01/28/99
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On January 28, 1999 at 20:32:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 28, 1999 at 17:27:21, Steven Schwartz wrote: > >>In our attempt to make up for lost time, >>we have just put up EIGHT new poll questions! >> >>Please click on the link to the "Computer Chess >>Resource Center" at the top or bottom of this >>page and place your votes. >> >>The latest SSDF results are also on the WCCR >>in the Resource Center. >> >>- Steve (ICD/Your Move) > > >The 'deep blue' question is really a bad one. The idea just doesn't make >a lot of sense. IE if I took a word processor, made in work on my blender, >would I have a better automobile would make just as much sense. > >DB is _not_ "just a fast machine that a program can run on."It _is_ a silicon >embodiment of what the DB guys think a chess computer ought to be. _if_ you >could take a commercial engine and modify it to work on their hardware, do you >know what you would have? Easy answer: "Deep Blue". Because you would have to >do things exactly as they do things. Evaluate the same things, use the same >kind of search, the same data structures to fit the hardware... > >ie it is a silly question... Yes, but some of us are too naive to know the difference, so we voted anyway. KarinsDad :)
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