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Subject: Re: Could Programmers here working together simulate DB's Knowledge??

Author: Otello Gnaramori

Date: 02:06:24 11/18/01

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On November 17, 2001 at 20:52:36, Jesper Antonsson wrote:

>On November 17, 2001 at 18:24:20, Otello Gnaramori wrote:
>
>>On November 17, 2001 at 16:02:49, Joshua Lee wrote:
>>
>>>Even without the massive hardware and despite how much slower it would be is
>>>there enough knowledge about how Deep thought/ Blue Played to re-create it?
>>>How much time and money would it take?
>>
>>Hi Joshua,
>>I think that as already stated somewhere in this forum , the D.B. algorithms ,
>>evals and so on are pretty standard ones and to be more clear are a bit outdated
>>since that project was stopped on '97 by the IBM.
>>The great "plus" of D.B. was and still is the hardware base of calculus with
>>specialized chips capable to reach an outstanding value of 200
>>Megapositions/second .
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>Otello.
>
>Otello, there is not enough information available for you to make such claims.

Please see my answere here :
http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?197927

>To answer the original posters question, no, there is not enough knowledge about
>DB to create a DB-emulator. If IBM made all DB information public (which would
>probably involve documentation work for them), I think it would take perhaps six
>months, full time for one person, to create an emulator.

Agreed.

>Of course, to emulate a massively parallel beast like that perfectly on a serial
>machine would be almost impossible, I don't expect that even DB got repeatable
>results all the time, but I think you could get close enough. The speed of the
>emulator, NPS-wise, would be way below what we see in current micros because,
>among other things, the eval is probably to complex to run quickly in software.
>
>Regards,
>Jesper

Agreed.



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