Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:49:22 01/22/00
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On January 22, 2000 at 12:43:54, blass uri wrote: >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 Just don't lose sight of the fact that against microcomputers, they lost only 2 games over a 10 year period, playing in an ACM or WCCC event each year (and sometimes both). with deep thought hardware. DB-1's chips were much better. DB-2's chips were again much better than DB-1's....
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