Author: blass uri
Date: 09:43:54 01/22/00
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On January 22, 2000 at 10:51:12, blass uri wrote: >On January 22, 2000 at 10:30:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>No, but if you take the 40 games Hsu/Campbell played against micros in their >>lab, with a very slow single-processor version of DB, you might conclude that >>speed wasn't all they had. IE 38-2 was the reported result that several >>reported here after attending talks by the two. That is evidence that they >>are doing something quite good... > >I understood that they have a hardware advantage even in these games and it is >also possible that they did something good in the search and not in the >evaluation. > >Uri Another point is that the games of the 38:2 are not public so many people do not believe in them. IBM and hsu did almost everything in order not to be respected. It may be obvious to hsu that deep blue Junior is better than the commercial programs but it is not obvious to the public when the games to prove it are not public. If he wants people to respect him and believe that he had really better evaluation and better search than the commercial programs then he has to prove it by public games. Uri
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