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Subject: Re: Kasparov is afraid

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:10:32 01/11/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 05:25:49, Amir Ban wrote:

>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.

Jeremiah Pennery has show several of them, including one recently.



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