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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:38:05 04/20/05

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On April 20, 2005 at 12:34:41, chandler yergin wrote:

>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.

Shows your ignorance.  _HE_ set the rules.  _HE_ was the one IBM wanted to play
for max P/R exposure.  He got _everything_ he asked for.


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

Right after you admit your ignorance about computer chess in general, deep blue
and the match in particular.


>
>I think you owe Kasparov, the Greatest Player an apology!

I don't owe him anything.




>>
>>Got any kinfolk in Canada?



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