Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:48:48 01/23/00
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On January 23, 2000 at 10:54:40, Chris Carson wrote: >On January 23, 2000 at 10:18:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >Big snip >> >>Note that there are _no_ deep blue vs micro games in existance. Even the >>40 games I mentioned were against a 1 processor version running in a >>crippled mode. DB has _never_ played in a computer vs computer event, only >>deep thought. > >Fair enough and I expect you to never say that DB has proven itself >better than the micros. You can express an opinion, but it is only >an opinion and not fact and you should label it as only an opinion. > >Best Regards, >Chris Carson I have always said it was an opinion. I have always said that "deep thought proved itself against micros". It did. However, "opinion" about DB does have some basis in fact. An example: I race boats here regularly. A friend of mine has a good motor on an Allison hull. I know how much the Allison hull weighs (800 pounds) and I know how much horsepower his merc pro-max 225 puts out (225+). A friend of mine asked me what I thought this hull would do with a merc high-performance 2.5 EFI motor on the transom. Knowing that the 2.5 is rated at 265 horsepower, and that it makes closer to 300, I speculated that it would be _significantly_ faster than the pro-max 225 version. Based only on logical reasoning: same weight, more horsepower == more speed. With Deep Blue, Hsu did everything he did in deep thought, but he did it a lot faster, he added even more eval, fixed some known problems in DTs hardware (no repetition detection in hardware, etc.) I don't consider it a "guess" when I say that DB is obviously better than DT. And then Hsu played games between the two as well, with Joel evaluating how it was doing. It significantly outplayed DT, and then DB2 outplayed DB1. Is that just whistling in the wind, or is it sound reasoning? IE I _know_ that Crafty on a 16 cpu alpha is stronger than Crafty on a quad xeon. But that is _still_ opinion since I haven't had a chance to run a real test. But intuition can't be wrong here...
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