Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:46:33 05/14/99
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On May 14, 1999 at 03:19:35, Harald Faber wrote: >On May 13, 1999 at 09:34:30, Alvaro Polo wrote: > >>I understand that games played by DB besides Kasparov's match are secret, but >>that DB Junior played many public games. >> >>My question is, are those games by DB Junior available on the Internet? Has >>somebody analized them to see if the play is clearly better than that of >>currently available chess software? > >No they are not available, only a rumour to have crushed the 2 top programs with >10-0. Oh, sorry, no rumour, Hsu claims all that. :-) >And no hint which 2 programs have been crushed... There is more information. The two programs were rebel and genius. This was reported here by someone that attended a talk by either Hsu or Campbell and they asked. Second, 10-0 was the tip of the iceberg. It was actually 38-2, as reported in IEEE Micro in the current issue. And finally, DB Junior played dozens of public games. At two consecutive Supercomputing conferences I walked into the tournament hall and found it playing GM players like Robert Byrne (to name just one GM). I believe that Hsu reported that DB Junior's performance rating over a whole bunch of games was 2750 or something close. Deep Thought II produced a 40/2hr performance rating over 2650 to take the final Fredkin prize. So there is _plenty_ of data about the machine... And it is all pretty impressive data to boot..
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