Computer Chess Page #4

White has already sacrificed

a queen and a knight.

This is either suicide

- or just the most brilliant game...

- What's going on over there?

...of the whole tournament.

TSAR hasn't made a single move!

Hey, don't talk to him.

He's working!

Pat, go f*** yourself!

Look!

This is a beautiful, beautiful quiet move

which I just missed.

- CHECKERS set quite a clever trap here...

- Tom! Hi!

Hi! Les, good to see you.

Excuse me.

- How are you doing?

- I'm fine, thank you.

Wow, you're still using the V-20-10...

Excuse me, Les.

Tom, could you follow me, please?

- Nice position you've got there.

- Tom!

(Henderson) Tom Schoesser,

the man of the hour!

Hey, what's wrong with you guys?

TSAR 3.0 - what's wrong?

Innovation can be a rocky road!

We actually just resigned the game.

You resigned?

Why?

Peter, you want to update Tom?

It, um...

I was just up all night debugging it

and I haven't come across anything.

- You were up all night?

- Yes.

OK, um...

How about you get a breath of fresh air

and we'll work on this?

Oh. OK.

- Roland, good to see you.

- Hey, Tom.

Good to see you.

So, er, I know

this is a little unorthodox,

but between gentlemen,

do you mind if we "unresign"?

Sure. Yeah.

- I just want to watch her play.

- It's OK with us.

OK.

Hey!

Hey, are you with the computer convention

over there?

Yeah, I think we met briefly

in the conference room, I'm Dave.

- You're...?

- Peter.

- Peter, nice meeting you. Yeah.

- Yes.

Hey, do you mind

if I ask you a question?

What are you guys doing in there?

(Chuckles)

Are those all the new computer models,

or what?

No, not really.

- They're new chess programmes.

- Oh, yeah?

Various... various people have written

their own chess programmes this year

- and it's a tournament for that.

- OK.

So the computers will face each other off

to see who's written the best programme.

OK, so... the computers play chess

versus other computers?

Yes.

Wow.

(Chuckles) Wow!

Well, I've got

a little convention here, too.

I mean, it's a couples group.

I don't know if you've ever done

any encounter stuff or anything like that.

You're probably a little young for that.

Mu u I IS R

I don't know if you're into

any of the therapy at all...

Anyhow...

the guy, I don't know if you've seen this guy -

Keneiloe in there?

Big black guy.

I mean, he's from Africa!

So his perspective is really...

really heavy, you know?

I mean, his...

It's not like the western therapy trip at all.

It's like, er, it's really...

Oh, man.

Are you married?

- No.

- OK, well...

I mean,

all truths contain their opposite.

Without black you can't have white,

that sort of thing.

You understand, right?

It's like in order to know something

you have to forget it - that's why we seek it!

OK, OK...

I know what you're thinking,

"Who's this crazy guy?"

- No, it's nothing like that.

- Yeah, no, it's OK, it's OK, it's all right!

Well, I'm Dave.

Tell me your name again?

- Peter.

- Peter, right.

- Peter Bishton.

- Peter Bishton.

- Hey.

- Yes.

Hey, we got the same colour eyes, man!

All right.

Hey, I'll see you.

(Henderson) There is an interesting tie

for second place

between STASIA and ADVANTAGE.

Three and a half points each.

Their only hope is that the top two teams

are going to draw,

but I think that's very unlikely

with CHECKERS and ALLIANCE,

two teams that are absolutely

going to go for the kill.

CHECKERS and ALLIANCE!

ALLIANCE,

a kind of traditional programme,

we like what they do,

but we can kind of figure it out.

But CHECKERS...

I've talked about this several times today -

very strange,

very idiosyncratic, very odd.

I talked to Mr Papageorge himself

and I said,

"What language is your programme in?"

And of course, he wouldn't tell me.

So I talked to a couple of other programmers

and they said, "We have no idea.

"It could be Sanskrit,

it could be Pig Latin!"

(Baby squeals)

(Baby cries)

(Woman) Shh-shh-shh...

Um...Tom.

HEY:

(Whispering)

(Baby cries)

I'm sorry, can you go to the bathroom

and wash your hands?

Yes.

(Water running)

OK.

Let's check her out.

OK.

So let's run a trace

with test position 62.

OK.

(Rattling)

OK, keep scrolling.

OK, next page.

I just don't understand

why it's committing suicide.

(Chuckles) It's not killing itself-

it's a computer.

It doesn't have will.

It's running software -

we wrote the software.

So there, it's going down the tree

and then it's calling

the evaluation function.

OK, so... keeping that in mind,

when you are compiling

with F77, this code...

The F77 that you're running

is not the standard one.

I wrote a new compiler,

specific to this hardware and this software.

- Say that again?

- So...

The compiler is adding instructions

to implement the machinery

of the optimizations

as it's compiling the lines that you see.

OK.

So you can see those lines of code,

but there's actually more being generated.

The system can improve itself

during the game - in the hash -

to run the evaluation and then

to store that evaluation in the hash.

With adjusted parameter settings...

To implement, say,

the transposition table...

Additional functionality...

That's right - everything is not everything!

- What?

- There's more.

- OK... That's kind of new.

- Yeah.

OK.

So...

Um...

How do you stay up

through these all night hacking sessions?

I mean, do you want to get a coffee

or something?

- No. No, thanks. I'm fine.

- OK.

- I'm fine, thank you.

- OK.

Um, you know, when I was in grad school

I used to do some push-ups sometimes.

Keep my blood flowing.

Yeah.

No, I think I'm fine,

I don't need to do anything.

OK, no push-ups. So...

I just don't want it to keep losing,

that's all.

I understand,

but this is an advantage for us.

Everyone down there

thinks that we're yesterday's news.

But we're getting information now

about how this system is performing

in a tournament setting,

and we've got six months

before the world championship in Lisbon,

and no one can catch up to us!

Because they haven't seen

the technology in action,

- because of this problem.

- Neither have we.

Yeah, well,

but we can go back to California

and put the boards

in the testing hardware

and test everything in isolation

based on the parameters

that you're finding here.

We have time...

But speaking of time,

I have to get back to my wife and child.

Oh, all right, um...

Thank you.

- OK. Bye-bye.

- Bye.

Thank you Dr Schoesser -

you're a great adviser and a brilliant man.

(Knocking)

Convince me not to kick your ass.

Don't kick my ass.

Why would you want to kick my ass, John?

You stole something from me.

You hadn't talked to Freddy about this?

Is he here, by the way?

Yeah, I took those drugs.

The pills.

Freddy and I talked about this -

I'm bringing you guys money for them...

John, come on,

it's just some money.

What's the big deal?

John... John?

(Electronic whirring)

(Beeping)

(Buzzing)

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