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Subject: Re: Fritz and Chess Wizard vs Deep Blue Junior.

Author: Frederic Louguet

Date: 23:50:47 05/17/99

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On May 17, 1999 at 13:38:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>what you played against wasn't 'deep blue junior' as we know it.  The web-
>based demo they run uses a single 'board' with DB processors, and is set to
>search 1 second per move no matter how much time you use.  Of that 1 second,
>a good part is spent downloading the hardware evaluation.
>
>No idea how strong it plays, but at less than a second per move, what you
>are playing is obviously not a serious version of DB Junior at all...  Their
>'web-based' version is obviously much different from a real program, because
>anything 'web-based' is by necessity 'stateless' meaning no continuity from
>move to move since many can be playing it at one time.  IE it will have no
>idea about repetitions at all, other than what it can see in the current
>position and the search it does from that position...
>
>Just for the record...
>
>Of course, beating the thing is still not easy.  But the 'real' machine is so
>much stronger..
>
>Bob

A very interesting precision. However, it seemed to take somewhat longer than
one second to play a move, even with the transmission delay.



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