Author: chandler yergin
Date: 13:45:55 04/24/05
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On April 24, 2005 at 15:54:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... You'd sure like to think so wouldn't you?
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