Author: Joe McCarro
Date: 21:37:45 04/12/02
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>Hsu and team had ALREADY MADE A WORLD CHAMP - DEEP THOUGHT. Then they re-did it >with TWO more revisions, DB and Deeper Blue. Increasing it's hardware, which as >has been mentioned, is the biggest factor in chess computer improvement in the >past 20 years. (Try running Fritz on a real clunker CPU/system for a hoot!) Hardware: Wasn't it borne out that the software that had very knowledgable selective search made much greater gains with better hardware than the software that wasn't as "knowledgable". In other words, the programs with more of a brute force approach experienced diminishing returns with faster hardware whereas computers with allot of knowledge really took off with better hardware. From what I understand Fritz 7 has alot more knowledge built in unlike its earlier versions. Nobody really seems to know what knowledge was added to Deeper blue. Maybe it had dimishing returns maybe not. Deep thought champ: Aren't there other of programs around that time that were champs or at least strong contenders that would be nowhere close to champ now?
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