Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:32:27 09/21/05
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On September 20, 2005 at 22:24:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: <snipped> >>So you either saw enough of it, in which case that bad game against Fritz, and >>the other bad game against WChess, go on its record, or all you saw were the >>games against Kasparov, in which case we have a dozen games from something that >>could have played tens of thousands by now. >> >>Nothing can be concluded from a dozen games. > >Of course not. But then I'm not basing my opinion on "a dozen games". I first >played them OTB in 1987 in orlando. I saw them in every ACM event after that >point, and also at the 1989 WCCC event in Edmonton that they won. So my opinion >is based on watching them improve steadily from 1986 where they played horribly >(I did not play in the 1986 ACM event, as it was just a month or so after the >1986 WCCC and I could not get time from Cray for both and chose the WCCC), to >1987 where it played far stronger, and I saw that progression each and every >year after that until the 1993-1994 era where it was just about impossible for >it to lose. BTW I think the wchess game you mentioned was against Cray Blitz, >not DT... I don't remember them ever losing a game to wchess or any other >micro, although they might have lost one during that span (not counting the >fritz loss in Hong Kong). Deep Blue prototype did not lose against Wchess but in 1995 they drew with Wchess and a draw is also a bad result for them so bruce considers it as "the other bad game against WChess" Uri
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