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Subject: Re: I found 2 interesting things in Deep Blue logs!

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 00:53:08 01/24/00

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On January 24, 2000 at 01:39:31, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I looked quite carefully to cleaned logs. And it's really stunning, that DB had
>never clearly negative evaluation expect around the end of game 1. Quite an
>achievement against Kasparov! But my findings.
>
>1) Game 4. When playing 49. Kxb1 DB evaluates position with +426! Why??
>
>2) Game 6. When playing 12.a4 DB already evaluates position as better for white!
>   I tried with many commercial programs - they all evaluate position negative
>   even with over 1 hour running time. Is this indication superior evaluation
>   function in DB? Is there program to evaluate positive?
>
>Jouni

Indeed, DB without an opening book likes 8. Nxe6 for White. (source: personal
communication)

Dave



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