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Subject: Re: " You don't know what the h*ll you're talking about".

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 01:17:39 04/16/02

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On April 16, 2002 at 03:12:27, Uri Blass wrote:

>On April 16, 2002 at 00:35:06, David Dory wrote:

>I agree that in the last 20 years hardware was improved more than software
>but if you look at pc programs in the last 5 years things are not so clear.

I think at least in the last 5 years it has been 50-50, I confess I don't know
much about computerchess before that.

>The right comparison is to give the best programs of today the hardware of 1997
>and put them to a match against the programs of 1997 in the hardware of today.
>
>
>Try to play a match between the ssdf leader of 16.4.1997 against the ssdf leader
>of 16.4.2002(Fritz7) when you give the ssdf leader of 16.4.1997 the hardware of
>today and you give Fritz7 the hardware of 1997.
>
>I do not think that the result is clear.

I would be interesting to see what has been the dominant factor.

>I think that there was simply no improvement in the best programs in the years
>1994-1996 because genius that dominated at that time did not improve(Genius3 and
>later versions of genius are in similiar strength) and other programmers only
>closed the gap from genius.

You may be right, I remember hearing about Genius, but I wasn't playing much
chess back then.

>Uri



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