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

Author: Rolf Tueschen

Date: 10:09:03 04/24/05

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On April 24, 2005 at 12:57:12, chandler yergin wrote:

>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.'"


The crucial truth is that because of that superiority the team around Hsu &
Campbell decided to disturb Kasparov's concentration in 1997 so that he no
longer could make his "mysterious" computations! The moment came when Kasparov
asked them for the logs. They didn't reply and treated Kasparov like an
uninvited guest on a party. In reality he was their wanted client in a science
challenge abou the chess strength of machine and humans.



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