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Subject: Re: Position from game 1 of first DB-Kasparov match

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 14:00:41 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 16:43:39, Chris Carson wrote:

>Source: http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/meet/html/d.3.1f.html
>Source: http://www.sciam.com/explorations/042197chess/
>
>Program      Ver   Date      Rating     NPS
>Chip Test          1985      ??????     50K
>Deep Thought 0.01  May 1985  ??????     700K
>Deep Thought 0.02  Nov 1988  USCF 2551  720K
>Deep Thought       May 1989  ??????     750K
>Deep Thought II    May 1991  USCF 2600+ 6.5M  Kasp. says Fide 2450-2500
>Deep Blue    Proto May 1993  ??????     100M
>Deep Blue          Feb 1996  TPR 2650   100M
>Deeper Blue        May 1997  TPR 2840   200M
>
>Best Regards,
>Chris Carson


The "deep blue proto" is wrong.  It used deep thought hardware.  And hit a max
of 6 M nodes per second, although Hsu reported that they hardly ever used this
configuration in real games...  DB itself didn't play any games at all until
1996, as that was when the first batch of chips (new DB chips) became available



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