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Subject: Re: next deep blue

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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