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

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 09:34:41 04/20/05

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On April 20, 2005 at 12:03:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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

He did not dictate the rules; he "agreed to" the Rules,
a big difference!
The Rules were stacked against him from the beginning.


>
>get over it

Admit your Bias towards Kasparov, and your lack of objectivity
& logic, and perhaps I will.

I think you owe Kasparov, the Greatest Player an apology!
>
>Got any kinfolk in Canada?



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