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

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 18:41:03 11/06/00

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On November 06, 2000 at 16:49:29, Uri Blass wrote:

>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



I'm ready to bet.



    Christophe



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