Author: Amir Ban
Date: 02:25:49 01/11/00
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On January 11, 2000 at 01:10:56, Dann Corbit wrote:
>Worst of all, I think he considered Deep Blue to be a micro program with a big
>box around it. He really had no comprehension of how much better 200 Million
>NPS is than 200 Thousand NPS. Statments about how {paraphrasing} "computers
>will never make a move like that" indicate to me that he prepared by playing
>against micros. That is like preparing for Linares by running through a bunch
>of games with C club players. Deep Blue will see things that other computers
>simply will not see without allowing absurd time intervals. If he allowed the
>micros to think for one week per move he might get something commensurate. But
>then, the playing experience would not be the same, because he would be
>operating at a slow, postal rate and have plenty of time to think through the
>possibilities.
>
This has been said countless times before, and the follow up question: Show us
one move that Deep Blue (or Deep Thought) made that a micro needs a week to
find, has never been answered.
Amir
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