Author: chandler yergin
Date: 08:58:40 04/20/05
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On April 20, 2005 at 08:42:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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 read the book. I read it before it was published in fact, since he asked me >to proofread the thing before it was completed... > >grow up... Then you KNOW it was NOT a fair Contest!
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