Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 09:28:12 08/26/01
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On August 26, 2001 at 10:21:55, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On August 26, 2001 at 08:19:21, David Blackman wrote: > >>Keep in mind there was a series of machines. ChipTest -> Deep Thought -> Deep >>Thought 2 -> Deep Blue -> Deeper Blue. They were similar in some ways, very >>different in others. It was Deeper Blue that finally beat Kasparov. >> >>Deeper Blue was significantly faster than Fritz running on any platform they are >>likely to have this year. > >I would seriously doubt that Deeper Blue would be faster than Deep Fritz is. DB searched 200 million nodes per second. So the one thing that *is* completely clear is that DB had a ridiculous speed advantage. >only way to know this for certain would be, if we have a version of Deeper Blue >converted to run on regular P.C. Now the key factor is not just speed, but if >we are going to compare programs alone; Deep Fritz, Deep Junior, Chess Tiger or >Shredder have more Chess Knowledge than Deeper Blue. > >Pichard. DB can't be converted to run on a PC. It is not just a piece of software that can be compiled for a different platform. This has been discussed here a million times. Check the archives - you'll find hundreds of threads. -Peter
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