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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