Don Dailey wrote:
Bob was so strong in his opinion that I just had to shut up. His conclusion was that Deep Blue had no compromises whatsoever in it's search and was in fact more efficient and that the evaluation was of much higher quality than the PC programs. I still don't believe this.
I remember Feng Hsiung Hsu discussing this point in his book "Behind Deep Blue" (see http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=551 for a review) Before reading that book, I also held the believe that the chip's evaluation had to be limited in its sophistication. But I found Feng Hsiung to be quite convincing at arguing the opposite. It's a shame he never got to develop the chip further after the famous matches... regards, -John _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/