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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:54:27 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.'"

What does that have to do with anything?  three minutes +/- X, where X can be up
to 15-20 minutes based on actually playing games against Deep Thought and deep
blue prototype...

Times vary wildly.  For _all_ programs.

Go read something, or talk to someone, or do something to improve your knowledge
about computer chess.  Shoot, even sitting on a rock alone will probably do
that... your knowledge is so near zero at the moment...




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