Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:23:29 11/04/99
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On November 03, 1999 at 23:12:31, Richard Bean wrote: >http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/kasparov-team/posts/hj/101641.asp > >"... I suspect that Krush's team used a computer >with computational capabilities comparable >to those of ``Deep Junior''. My guess >is that it probably was american program >``Ferret'' which just like ``Deep Junior'' >works off 4 processors. My assumption >here is based on the queen ending analysis >that we've seen. It's comparable in >size and quality to ours..." A friend asked me to run a position, so I ran it overnight and didn't find anything special, meaning that it liked the same move after several hours as it did after a minute or two, I think. If the implication is that I took part in analysis sessions or was in any way a part of the world team, that's false. I almost completely ignored that game. Someone could ask themselves what my machine has been doing since June. I came back from Paderborn, and didn't appear on ICC, so what was the machine doing? I can imagine a conspiracy theory evolving from this simple fact, someone might speculate that the machine had been actively helping the world team, sitting there churning over positions for days on end. Before someone suggests that this was the case, I'd like to explain what was really going on. The machine was *off* for most of that time, and for much of it was in its packing box. The time it was on it was doing essentially nothing. It most certainly wasn't spending any measurable fraction of that time analyzing that game, I just had it look at that one position for one evening. I had quite enough computer chess in Paderborn, and I'm still more or less taking a break. bruce
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