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Subject: Re: POLL QUESTION

Author: James Robertson

Date: 17:57:50 01/29/99

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On January 29, 1999 at 09:51:36, William H Rogers wrote:

>Would todays top chess program be as good as or better if they were played on
>the Deep Blue Machine.
>The heart of the Deep Blue Machine is hard wired mover generator. It is capable
>of making millions of moves per second, while todays top programs rely on chess
>logic, so if today top programs were using millions of moves per second combined
>with their own logic, I believe they would destroy Deep Blue or any other Chess
>Master.
>Bill

What evidence do you have for that? The _only_ evidence I have seen for
comparison between Deep Blue and PC programs is when the debate came over the
Be4-Qb6 (2nd game of their rematch) that Kasparov claimed Deep Blue had cheated
with. Programmers here ran their programs for up to 2 weeks, searching as many
nodes as DB would in 3 minutes, and not one could come up with Be4. From the
_only_ evidence available, I think coming to a conclusion opposite yours is
_very_ reasonable.

James



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