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Subject: Re: DB Chip will kill all comercial programs or.....

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 22:39:26 05/13/99

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On May 13, 1999 at 23:00:53, Eelco de Groot wrote:

>
>Robert, Mr. Hyatt, thanks for all the new info on the 'Deep Blue for consumers'
>chip! Does Mr. Hsu already have a name for it? I suppose you could call it 'Baby
>Blue' , but maybe that is too innocent a name for this monster... (A topic for
>the polls, maybe, choosing a good name?). Regarding your thoughts on 'guts' , I
>am not a programmer, but does not the 'soul' of a program  reside for a large
>part in its positional understanding also? Since the chip can be operated in
>parallel to a software program, could  it not be used mainly for a deep tactical
>evaluation? Letting the program do a 1 ply search on all the positional features
>Deep Blue is not very good at, while the chip does a 4 ply mainly tactical
>search? It would be up to the programmer then to decide how much weight each of
>the two evaluations must get to retain the original character of the program. Am
>I making any sense here?

Well, it would make more sense if you identified what positional features Deep
Blue is not very good at.  This should be possible, given that Hsu has
published.

>Kind regards,
>
>Eelco de Groot.

Dave



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