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Subject: Re: Christophe Theron, you mean 500 GHZ??? (NT)

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 13:49:29 11/06/00

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On November 06, 2000 at 16:43:45, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 06, 2000 at 16:21:54, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 06, 2000 at 16:13:43, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On November 06, 2000 at 15:17:32, Jonathan Lee wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 06, 2000 at 01:43:48, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On November 05, 2000 at 15:33:57, Jonathan Lee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I understand Walter Irvin's point of view of contemporary greats versus
>>>>>>the others point of view who are talking about influential greats.
>>>>>>It would be safe to say that the 20th century influential greats (such as
>>>>>>Richard Lang) are a SUBSET of the year 2000 contemporary greats listed _some_ by
>>>>>>Walter Irvin.
>>>>>>Grandmasters in gigahertz:  Just tell me how many gigahertz will it take to
>>>>>>equal Kramnik.
>>>>>>Jonathan (83rd message)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>500MHz will be enough. Not with current programs, but in several years software
>>>>>improvements will compensate.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    Christophe
>>>>500 GHZ
>>>>Jonathan (86th message)
>>>
>>>I am not christophe but I am almost sure that he means 500 mhz and not 500GHZ.
>>>I suspect that 500GHZ may be enough with the best programs of today.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>I meant 500MHz.
>>
>>500GHz is enough with programs of ten years ago.
>
>I disgree here.
>
>I do not think that 500GHz with programs of 1990 is enough.
>
>I believe that 500GHz with programs of 1990 are going to lose at tournament time
>control against the top programs of today on 1 GHz.
>
>Uri

I can add that it is possible to check it by a correspondence match when a
program of 1990 will have 25 hours per move and a program of 2000 will have 3
minutes per move when both programs use 1 GHz processors.

Uri



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