Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 19:13:28 04/19/05
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On April 19, 2005 at 22:02:32, chandler yergin wrote: ahem ...(cough) -- I see you quoted Hsu's book and your putting things to rest. Was there any other point you were trying to make? ...just wondering... Best, Michael >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!
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