Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 20:34:39 10/15/99
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On October 15, 1999 at 22:18:00, Micheal Cummings wrote: >On October 15, 1999 at 16:21:22, Scott Gasch wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>Today Dr. Hsu (who recently left IBM / Deep Blue team) gave a talk at Microsoft >>research. I went to hear what he had to say and ask him a few questions. >> >>The presentation was pretty much about the history of computer chess. Bob he >>mentioned you. Also Belle and Ken Thompson. And then went on about his own >>work on Deep Thought / Deep Blue. >> >>The entire time I had the feeling he was selling something. Towards the end he >>made a pitch for (private) support of his new effort which, as best I can tell, >>is a single processor chess card for a normal PC to take on Kasparov for the >>world title. He seems to think that Kasparov would put the title on the line in >>a rematch. Hsu just left IBM last week and has done no work on this yet but he >>is looking at a timeframe of 2001-2002 for the match. Dr. Hsu believes he would >>have a better than 50% chance of winning this match. He has also gotten >>permission from IBM to start with the deep blue chess chip and build upon it. >> >>I was able to ask some questions during and after the talk that may be >>interesting to you as well. Here is what I learned: >> >>1) His new project will optionally use NULL move pruning and other pruning. He >>wants to be able to turn it on and off. He believes that with proper selective >>extension you do not need NULL move pruning at all if you have enough speed, >>though. >> >>2) The eval hardware on Deep Blue was 2/3 of the chip and his eval function has >>about 3000 terms which they tuned by hand. He is thinking about different ways >>to automatically "train" the eval function now. >> >>Scott > >Kasparov has enough trouble letting his fellow human players try to get the >world title off him, do you really think he would let a PC card get the chance. > >No one, let alone Kasparov would put up a title in that way. Actually, Kasparov's problem is that he can't find sponsors (with enough money) to fund his matches. I think he would play anyone or anything if the money was right. --Peter
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