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Subject: Re: DB just another program

Author: Michael Neish

Date: 18:18:36 01/26/00

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On January 26, 2000 at 18:30:21, walter irvin wrote:

>with speed i said the program deep blue was average not the hardware .but if
>given equal mhz the programs such as fritz ect with their much smaller eval
>would be faster and get deeper and beat deep blue . i guess what im saying is
>deep blue is 95% hardware 3% software 2% luck .

I don't know enough to say which computer would be stronger, but I suppose Fritz
would get deeper than DB on the same hardware, judging from what I've read
discussed, simply because DB apparently had no forward pruning and Fritz did.
Whether the extra depth that Fritz could get because of pruning would make it a
stronger player is another question I won't even try to answer.

By the way, why didn't the DB team have any forward pruning?  Didn't they trust
their own eval?

Cheers,

Mike.





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