Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 03:20:28 10/16/99
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On October 15, 1999 at 23:34:39, Peter Kappler wrote: >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 Kasparov? Have a tough time finding sponsors from the computing industry. Gee, I wonder why. <snort> Dave
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