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Subject: Re: About Deep Blue

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 20:33:29 12/23/05

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On December 23, 2005 at 18:36:46, Mark Ryan wrote:

>On December 23, 2005 at 18:22:29, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>As far as know deep blue was based on an actual chess playing program (please
>>correct me if am wrong) Dark Thought, does anyone recall the k/Ns for Dark
>>Thought on a regular PC at that time?
>>
>>I am asking this because we could maybe make an estimate of how Dark Thouhgt
>>would perform k/Ns wise on PC's of today and get a better understanding of what
>>the real speedup was on Deep Blue.
>>
>>Maybe i am confusing the program Deep Blue was build up around and maybe it is
>>not comparable (apples and oranges as Bob would put it), but if feaseble it
>>would make for an interesting comparison/experiement.
>>
>>Regards
>>Jonas
>
>Deep Blue was based on Deep Thought, which was hardware.  However, Deep
>Thought's "evaluation function tuning program" can be accessed through this
>link:
>http://www.tim-mann.org/deepthought.html
>

If anyone has integrated this into the chess program's eval or based theirs
on DT's, please let me know.

--Stuart

>Mark



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