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Subject: Re: A Blast from the present.

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 10:29:53 04/25/05

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On April 25, 2005 at 11:00:28, chandler yergin wrote:

>On April 24, 2005 at 23:36:41, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>On April 24, 2005 at 19:52:16, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>
>>>On April 24, 2005 at 19:43:45, Matthew Hull wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 24, 2005 at 11:42:17, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On April 24, 2005 at 11:26:32, chandler yergin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On April 24, 2005 at 10:13:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On April 24, 2005 at 05:14:48, Peter Berger wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On April 23, 2005 at 23:52:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Several of us have looked at the logs for the games, and game 2 looked perfectly
>>>>>>>>>normal and the program even reported a fail low and "panic time" where it
>>>>>>>>>searched longer than normal because of the fail low.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>This is a red herring and crap.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>When was the first time someone independent had a look at these logfiles? Have
>>>>>>>>you and the several others had a chance to look at the logfiles right after the
>>>>>>>>games took place, say May 1997?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>The logfiles IBM published eventually mean nothing at all. This was more than a
>>>>>>>>year after the games, wasn't it? Even I could produce most impressive logfiles
>>>>>>>>given that much time ..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Yes.  Several looked at the log right after the event.  I believe that Ken sent
>>>>>>>me the section from the game although I don't remember whether it was the Qxb6
>>>>>>>(not played) or the Be4 position.  I believe that Amir posted something about
>>>>>>>the position early, but his comments were based on either not understanding what
>>>>>>>DB's log output meant, or something else.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>This was about the "fail low (panic time)" that caused DB to search much longer
>>>>>>>than normal and may have been on the Be4 move although I simply don't remember
>>>>>>>much about it since it was not a particularly significant event in my mind
>>>>>>>because at the time I posted an excerpt from a Crafty log that looked
>>>>>>>_identical_ in concept.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Nothing ever looked strange about the log stuff to me...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Kasparov never saw them did he?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> He was the one that requested them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>He was the one under pressure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Review by third parties 'after the fact',
>>>>>>
>>>>>>way after the fact, do not excuse what happened.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I doubt if any Grandmaster, then or now, would go into a Match
>>>>>>
>>>>>>against 'any' Opponent blind, or accept the Match conditions Kasparov did.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Kasparov was seriously believing that this was a science clarification but when
>>>>>the scientists behaved like known crooks in sports he was completely losing his
>>>>>motivation to play decent chess. That is the crucial point. The position of Bob
>>>>>Hyatt is absolutely ok if you forget about the usually good relationship the
>>>>>team around Hsu had towards Kasparov. But if you dont forget that then you begin
>>>>>to realise what a fishy job they had played vs Kasparov who formerly was their
>>>>>buddy. Psychologically that is trivial. At first you woo somebody and when you
>>>>>won him, then you can play dirty and the guy is completely lost, most of all
>>>>>because of his perception that he could be so blind and to be so naive.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>GK was beaten in a match by DeepBlue II.  It was a portent.  Now, on ICC, you
>>>>can watch GMs getting smashed, thrashed, pumelled, flogged and slaughtered, all
>>>>day and night long.  They win a few games here and there and get evicerated the
>>>>rest of the time.
>>>>
>>>>All whining defenders of human chess superiority need to grow up.  Humans aren't
>>>>as consistently good as computers anymore.  Humans are toast in chess, now.
>>>
>>>
>>>In Blitz and Rapid, yes.
>>
>>
>>
>>Post where a GM prevails in a match of any length at long time controls.  If you
>>can't, then your position is unscientific.
>>
>>You blather all day about DB logs and "cheating science", yet you can't produce
>>the score or log of any match showing GM domination of current chess software.
>>You would "cheat science" with your unfounded assertions.
>>
>>In reality, we see GMs taking their beatings on chess servers, tournaments games
>>with long time controls, and in matches as old as two years ago.  Your position
>>has no data points.  My position has many.
>
>
>That just shows you don't understand how a Computer works.
>
>It also shows your bias against humans... how sad.
>
>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.'"


Idiots also do mysterious mental computations that no one can figure out.


>
>    Keep trying Matt.
>
>>
>>Now we see that yours is a position of no scientist but of a religionist
>>instead.
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>>>>>>Grandmasters prepare a dossier against their opponents and study them for
>>>>>>
>>>>>>months before a match. The Deep Blue team would not let Garry have access to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>even a glimpse of the Prematch training games of Deep Blue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>With good reason of course; they knew that the Computer could not beat him fair
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and square.



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