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Subject: Re: next deep blue

Author: blass uri

Date: 03:32:40 01/24/00

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On January 24, 2000 at 05:37:21, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On January 23, 2000 at 19:40:47, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>On January 23, 2000 at 19:29:31, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>>
>>>>No, the only reason you think DB has a bunch more evaluation is because Hyatt
>>>It has nothing to do with Hyatt.  Please try to construct better arguments in
>>>the future.  The reason I think DB has a better evaluation is that I've seen the
>>>games, and analyzed them.  Kasparov and other GMs have said that DB was clearly
>>>superior to anything else they've seen.
>>
>>Of course it's superior, it searched 200M NPS. Searching has the property of
>>"adding knowledge" to a program. How do you know that you were seeing evaluation
>>function terms in those games, and not tactics that are so deep that they're
>>hidden to humans?
>
>So why didn't he think this of DB-1?  It did about 100M NPS, but he ended up
>crushing it (see game 6 of the first match).  The NPS didn't seem to help so
>much there.  Obviously, there was a lot more knowledge in DB-2.

Obviously 200M is bigger than 100M.
It is also possible that the evaluation of DB-2 was better than DB-1 but it does
not prove that it was better than the commercial programs.

Uri



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