Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:21:02 09/21/05
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On September 21, 2005 at 03:32:27, Uri Blass wrote: >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 OK... maybe that was what he meant. I've not seen any computer that could avoid draws, no matter how much stronger it was than its opponents. Draws are just going to happen here and there, naturally.
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