Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:26:21 11/07/00
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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. > > > > Christophe I don't believe this. DB ran at the equivalent of this speed and had real problems. DB2 also ran at this speed and did much better. I don't think that a 10 year old program would beat Kramnik, Kasparov, etc on most any hardware. I don't believe today's programs would be anywhere near unbeatable at 500ghz either. They would definitely be tactically strong. But they would still be making the _same_ positional mistakes they always make. In theory a couple of Khz would be enough to beat all humans. In reality, that won't _ever_ happen, most likely. It will take a combination of hellishly fast hardware + a lot more positional understanding than today's programs have. IE until humans can no longer say "that is a 1400 level move" this isn't going to turn into reality.
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