Author: blass uri
Date: 13:59:20 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 15:36:28, Alvaro Polo wrote: >On January 23, 2000 at 12:53:54, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >> >> >>So, is Bob a liar, or is he just really clueless? You make the call... >> >>-Tom > >This comment is bad taste and should not be said by an intelligent person, as >you seem to be. > >Bob may be "religious" about DB but, on the other hand, I remember that before >the 1987 match against Kasparov people were saying in Usenet how DB was a bluff, >how it hadn't demonstrated being superior to the commercials, etc (exactly the >same things that they are saying today, by the way, you can look in DejaNews to >confirm that what I say it is true. Among the posters were Ed Schroeder and Amir >Ban, I believe). After all that, DB won the Kasparov match. I say this because >Bob is not the only one "religious" about his point of view, the other side is, >in my view, much more "religious". > >Alvaro I do not believe that people like Ed and Amir said that deeper blue is not better than the commercial programs. The question is if their evaluation function was superior. The impression of almost everybody is that their evaluation was not superior relative to the commercial programs and that they could not win the commercial programs 38:2 or 10:0 if you assume the same number of nodes. Uri
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