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- From: juffi@ai.univie.ac.at (Johannes Fuernkranz)
- Subject: Re: IBM Deep Blue
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.205600.19715@ai.univie.ac.at>
- Organization: Dept. Med.Cybernetics & Artif.Intelligence, Univ.Vienna, Austria, Europe
- References: <1992Dec12.111549.18997@daimi.aau.dk> <1992Dec12.173720.126654@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:56:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.173720.126654@watson.ibm.com> fhh@watson.ibm.com (Feng-Hsiung Hsu) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec12.111549.18997@daimi.aau.dk> palsberg@daimi.aau.dk (Jens Palsberg) writes:
- >>From the danish national chess magazine "Skakbladet" (12, 1992):
- >> The major attraction is a four-games match between
- >> "IBM Deep Blue" and danish GM Bent Larsen.
- >> The games will be played daily 11-17.
- >
- >There is a little misunderstanding here. The machine playing is not
- >really the final Deep Blue, but Deep Thought II runing the Deep Blue
- >preliminary software/search algorithms. There are three stages of development
- >for Deep Blue: the software simulation on DT II (Deep Blue Simulation), the
- >preliminary version on a prototype 10-processor machine (Baby Deep Blue), and
- >the final 1024-processor machine (Deep Blue). Only the first stage machine
- >will be ready for the match. The main difference between Deep Blue Simulation
- >and DT 2 is the introduction of new search extensions algorithms. The
- >Deep Blue technical presentation itself will be mainly on the new Deep Blue
- >custom VLSI single-chip chess machine.
-
- Has there been a match between Dt2 and Deep Blue Simulation?
-
- Juffi
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