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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - Feng Hsu Stuff & Nonsense Hyatt!

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 19:10:24 04/19/05

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On April 19, 2005 at 22:02:32, chandler yergin wrote:

>Let's put some stuff to rest here..
>
>Quoting from FENG-HSIUNG HSU's Book
>
>"Behind Deep Blue"
>
>Pg 207
> The match contract explicitly obliged the Deep Blue team to provide, when
>requested, the scores of all our public tournament games.
>
>True, he did not have access to games played by the newest version of the
>program.
>
>We wanted to be fair, but to give Garry games from our pre-match training would
>have placed us at a serious disadvantage.
>
>Pg 219.
>
>The chess books I had only gave cursory treatments on the positional play of the
>Queen
>After this game Joe wrote some simple code on where the Queen should be placed.
>
>Pg 220.
>
>An automatic tuning run for the evaluation function pointed out to us that the
>weighting for one class of King Safety should be increased.
>
>Pg224.
>
>The morning before game 2, the team debated whether we should make changes
>to Deep Blue's evaluation function. Joe had already 'fixed' the bug responsible
>for the last move in game 1, but there were other changes we needed to look
>into.
>
>Pg 238.
>
>The penalty for Bishops being shut out from the game was increased after this
>game.
>
>Pg 243.
>
>Granting him direct access to Deep Blue's game logs would be equivilent to
>giving him Deep Blue's silicon head on a  silver platter, with $700,000 on the
>side.
>
>
>   Well, enough Quotes..
>Read the BOOK!

I don't understand what the problems are:
(1) Kasparov got access to all public games played by DB, right? To all zero of
them.
(2) Yes, DB was modified *between* the games. I am absolutely sure Kasparov
modified his plans between the games, too -- at least he did that in his plays
against human...

Thanks,
Eugene



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