Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:48:26 06/29/02
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On June 29, 2002 at 17:04:01, Keith Evans wrote: <snipped> >I don't understand your question about knowing what Hsu did? His move generator >is pretty well documented. I know nothing about that and I think that there are a lot of people who know nothing about it. Unfortunately the thought processes behind the >decision to add additional capabilities (checking, check evasion,...) when going >from Deep Thought to Deep Blue are not well documented. (I'm talking strictly >about the movegen not about eval here.) > >That's why I'm so interested to see the responses. I barely have an opinion on >the matter, other than that I am interested in building a minimalistic move >generator in hardware, and obviously don't like unnecessary complexity. > >Regards, >Keith How much speed improvement do you expect to get relative to the commercial programs? I doubt if building a special hardware for chess is a good idea. The advantage of concentrating in software is that the same program can be faster when the hardware becomes better when things like deep blue are going to be always at the same speed. Uri
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