Author: Alvaro Polo
Date: 14:19:47 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 16:59:20, blass uri wrote: >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. > I am going to do something. I am going to look in DejaNews what Ed said (I am quite sure about him, not sure about Amir) and let you know tomorrow. If I am mistaken I will recognize it but I believe that I am right. I remember a *huge* discussion between Ed and Bob about DB capabilities. Alvaro >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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