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Subject: Re: A Blast from the past - Feng Hsu - Part Two

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 09:57:12 04/24/05

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Even the Deep Blue team is less Biased & more realistic than you are Hyatt!

http://www.southerncrossreview.org/2/chess.htm

Quoting:
"In Scientific American, May 1996, there is an interview with the designers of
DB, a parallel system with 16 nodes. "In three minutes, the time allocated for
each move in a formal match, the machine can evaluate a total of about 20
billion moves; that is enough to consider every single possible move and
countermove 12 sequences ahead and select lines of attack as much as 30 moves
beyond that. 'The fact that this ability is still not enough to beat a mere
human is amazing', Campbell [one of the six IBM prophets behind DB] says. The
lesson, Hoane [another one] adds, is that masters such as Kasparov 'are doing
some mysterious computation that we can't figure out.'"



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