Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 11:24:42 01/28/00
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Walter Irvin wrote: the statements i have been making is that given equal mhz pc's are as good or better .maybe deep blue is over rated??? deep blue's hardware is not over rated . if anything the main problem as i see it is deep blues hardware is vastly underated , plus the phycological impact a person would go through when playing such a beast .knowing it will miss nothing tacticaly .just knowing that db was searching 200,000,000 nps and how tuff pc's are at 250,000 nps along with db unpredictable play cause kasparov to start doubting himself .history of big chess matches show that once a player starts doubting himself he makes errors he normally would not make .so the main problem kasparov had was kasparov .db 1 and db 2 were not that different in elo .cm 6000 could have beaten kasparov by that final game , he was a beaten man . The point here is that Deep Blue *IS* the hardware + the software. They are not seperable the way that Fritz is seperable from your PC. It is really very difficult to say 'with equal NPS', because of the way that DB is integrated with the hardware. No PC program would be able to run on DB's hardware, and use it the same way that DB did without essentially rewriting the entire program. The main reason that DB could do what it did is because of it's remarkable architecture. A DB NPS is different from a Fritz NPS. We're really comparing apples and woodchucks here. Chris
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