Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:13:21 08/26/01
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On August 26, 2001 at 08:00:36, Uri Blass wrote: >On August 26, 2001 at 06:43:00, Janosch Zwerensky wrote: > >> >>>(...) >>>Put Deep Fritz, or other top programs, on the best available platform on which >>>they can run, and I imagine this is what they will have in Bahrain, and knowing >>>what we do about DB, what comparisons can we make? >> >>I think that, if you want to get such comparisons, you'd best try asking people >>who have actually played any number of games worth mentioning against Deep Blue >>II. To my knowledge, there are such people - IM Benjamin would be an example, as >>well as possibly GM Illescas - and I'd guess it is safe to say that they also >>have some experience concerning the strength of play of top commercial chess >>programs today. >>If you'd be able to get a statement from them, I'd be very interested to read >>about it. If no information on DB is available from these or comparable sources, >>I'd guess we can do nothing more than look at DB's hardware advantage and >>conclude that it probably was a lot stronger than is any chess playing machine >>today. >> >>Regards, >>Janosch. > >This is not my conclusion. >There are logfiles and we can get impressions which program is better based on >the logfiles. > >Deeper blue was a union of hardware and software. > >You cannot conclude from one part(hardware) about the level of the all thing. >We also do not know the exact details about the hardware. > >number of nodes per second is not enough to know how much it is faster than the >programs of today. > >Deeper blue did not use hash tables in the last plies and the demage from not >using hash tables should be also be considered when we try to estimate the speed >difference. > >There are also other problems. > >Uri Yes like it didn't use nullmove and was massive parallel.
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