Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 02:08:55 11/04/99
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On November 04, 1999 at 03:23:29, Bruce Moreland wrote: >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..." Don't worry Bruce, Kasparov probably played on icc recently against ferret and was impressed by Ferret, and a statement of this is kind of 'logical' then from the big mouth of Kasparov. >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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