Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:52:24 01/19/00
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On January 19, 2000 at 17:38:22, Amir Ban wrote: [snip] >> Ok, which moves can't be reproduced? And what exactly are the >>conditions, any program with any settings, or what? >> >> James B. Shearer > >Move 36 (axb5) of game 2. This move has been discussed and analyzed here ad >nauseam, on at least 3 occasions so far. Ah, the smoking gun! ;-) Now, should it be surprising that a machine which can solve all of the NOLOT problems except 3,6,9 can solve another position which PC's seem to have trouble with? Since PC's cannot (generally speaking) solve the NOLOT positions, should we also assume that DB was cheating when it solves those positions as well? Perhaps it's just a thousand times faster than PC's, and uses some very clever extensions. Remember, the published NOLOT results for Deep Thought would pale in comparison to Deep Blue. "Hey, I can't do that, my friends can't do that -- you must be cheating!" certainly does not wash with me. Especially when it has already been demonstrated that the machine can solve positions that PC's cannot.
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