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*definitelyJoey Stewart wrote:the deep blue team DEFINATELY cheated. No computer was on par with that 'technology' at the time - it is impossible to think that they were at least 10 years ahead of their time with the machine they had created.
It is a scientific fact, virtually.
I have noticed this error before, but forgot about it until today. When you click "quote" it sends a private message to somebody instead of making another post in the thread.Carl Hibbard wrote:What is the plural of pedantic?
Send me some more details please if you are seeing any sort of errors since I have not seen or experienced that one before?Joey Stewart wrote:Oh, wait a minute, now it is working fine. Something strange is going on tonight.
I think the move in question was Be4. The logs have been published for all the games which I think pretty much puts the whole thing to rest.Peter Rhodes wrote:It was pretty unusual for a computer at that time to find a move like f4 in a tournament time limit, and then they took the machine to bits when it would have been so easy to prove Kasparov wrong simply by re-creating the position.
Bear in mind that in most of the subsequent human vs computer matches, the engines (mostly Fritz or Junior) were running on more or less standard desktop PCs, whereas Deep Blue was the fastest supercomputer IBM could make; its software wasn't as good as later engines, but its hardware was better. The Deep Blue team cheating is very far from being a 'scientific fact'; evidence for it is at best circumstantial and at worst non-existent. Kasparov didn't exactly have a reputation for being gracious in defeat (touch move violation against Polgar; rant about Radjabov's win at Linares being voted the game of the tournament solely because he lost, etc.) so his whinge against Deep Blue was most probably just another case of sour grapes.Joey Stewart wrote:the deep blue team DEFINATELY cheated. No computer was on par with that 'technology' at the time - it is impossible to think that they were at least 10 years ahead of their time with the machine they had created.
It is a scientific fact, virtually.
By logs - we are talking about the list of candidate moves and the engine evaluation of each ?The logs have been published for all the games which I think pretty much puts the whole thing to rest.