Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:48:26 08/23/02
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On August 23, 2002 at 14:38:04, Matthew Hull wrote: >On August 23, 2002 at 10:05:02, Albert Silver wrote: > >>>Well, give them a break then. Yeah, the logs weren't available, the re-match >>>didn't happen. Just a lot of stuff they hadn't planned for happened and didn't >>>happen. >> >>The logs are available for download at the IBM site of DB. >> >>> >>>From the outside, I guess their behavior looked strange, rude, unaccountable. >>>But if you think about it (especially if you've ever worked in a >>>mega-corporation), it makes perfect sense. >>> >>>Why people can't see this is beyond me. Why do we need to hear you guys >>>discredit their work, belittle their playing strength, and pooh pooh their >>>victory? What is there to be learned from such stuff? >>> >>>All the other DT/DB machines were the best. DB2 was surely that and much more. >>> >>>Why is that so hard to accept? >> >>I agree completely. I also agree with your use of "were" and "was". >> >>>You will say "I analyzed the games. They didn't impress me". Yet they were >>>good enough to rattle and _defeat_ THE WORLD CHAMPION. >>> >>>Even THE WORLD CHAMPION HIMSELF was impressed with at least _one_ move. >> >>Sort of. He claimed that the move was evidence of cheating as neither Fritz nor >>Hiarcs would play it after any length of time. Only the WC can explain why he >>thought DB would play like a souped up Fritz or Hiarcs. >> >>>I'd bet GNUChess running on a 10ghz processor could beat today's commercials on >>>their 2ghz machines. Surely, DB2 would have an even greater speed advantage. >> >>I'm 100% sure it would get clobbered. It might interest you to know that in the >>SSDF matches played for Hiarcs 8, Hiarcs 8 running on an Athlon 1200 MHz lost to >>Junior 7 running on a K62-450 MHz. Not a common occurence to be sure, but it >>does illustrate that speed is not everything. >> >> Albert > > >We're not talking about 2x 3x or 4x speed differential, are we. If speed is 50x >or 100x and the eval is decent, it will be _enough_. But for some reason, >people have difficulty with their sense of proportion, and can't tell the >difference between 4x and 100x. Fascinating. In my book, 10 GHz = 5 x 2GHz. Albert
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