Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:14:53 11/25/01
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On November 25, 2001 at 17:31:22, Victor Fernandez wrote:
>On November 25, 2001 at 17:01:25, Matthias Gemuh wrote:
>
>>
>>7 years ago, any GM trembled in from of any weak program (see performance of
>>WChess). Now programs are MUCH stronger, but any GM is now equipped with strong
>>anti-computer techniques. GMs don't piss so much anymore in their pants when
>>they confront silicon monsters.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Matthias.
>
>Unless that monster it is called IBM and have 256 processors in parallel.
>It is the typical example of as a weak program together to an impressive
>hardware it can defeat the best human player; the other one is that a
>strong program with a normal hardware it can beat a GM, but it is seen few
>times, unfortunately.
>
>Regards,
>Victor
What IBM has done is not what chess programmers working on PC do.
IBM has put together a lot of fast processors, and the strength of Deep Blue
came from this.
PC chess programmers have to be much smarter than that. We have better search
algorithms than Deep Blue, and I have no reason to believe that our evaluation
functions are any worse.
Christophe
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