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Subject: Re: next deep blue (with an Ed Schroeder post from Usenet)

Author: Alvaro Polo

Date: 14:36:45 01/23/00

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Uri, here is a post from Ed, dated 1997/02/04. As you can see, it is before the
DB-K match.

---- begin quotation -------

Ok, another bottom line then...

You are an expert for more the 20 years. You have been extremely succesful
being 2 times the absolute worldchampion with Cray Blitz, you have Crafty,
you give everybody here wise support, you can talk about any subject. You
are an expert no doubt about it.

I have 14-15 year experience, have been succesfull too, I know every
little edge of my program which is not the worsed one at the moment.

My point is that expert-1 thinks completely different than expert-2.
Expert-1 : DB without any doubt the strongest program.
Expert-2 : strongly disagrees about that.

Important to know for the reader....

Wish we could solve it... :)

- Ed -

------ end quotation -------

I didn't see anything from Amir, so I recognize that I was mistaken (it happened
almost 3 years ago and people [I] forget, sorry)

I want to make clear that this post from Ed is not intended against him in any
way, just to prove that "facts" (ie the DB-K match) don't change the opinions of
anybody, pro DB or anti DB, so to speak.

Alvaro


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.
>
>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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