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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:03:39 04/20/05

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On April 20, 2005 at 11:58:40, chandler yergin wrote:

>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!


Because you say so?

Kasparov dictated the rules.  he lost

get over it

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