Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:52:33 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 12:52:15, Roy Eassa wrote: >This sentence DOES say a lot, doesn't it: > >"By the summer of 1990--by which time three of the original Deep Thought team >had joined IBM--Deep Thought had achieved a 50 percent score in 10 games played >under tournament conditions against grandmasters and an 86 percent score in 14 >games against international masters." > >That was 7 years before, and many-fold slower hardware (and much weaker >software, no doubt), than what played Kasparov in 1997. No This sentence tells me nothing new. I know that humans at that time did not know how to play against computers like they know today. Today programs got clearly better results than deep thought and there is more than one case when they got >2700 performance inspite of the fact that the opponents could buy the program they played against them something that Deep thought's opponents could not do. Uri
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