Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:11:06 10/11/02
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On October 11, 2002 at 15:47:20, Keith Evans wrote: >>If vincent would just shut up and read Hsu's book, he would be _amazed_ to >>discover that the current DB processors already have the ability to do a >>null-move >>search. Hsu just chose not to. But he designed the option into the chips. Of >>course, >>reading anything is not Vincent's strong point. Making ridiculous statements is >>really his forte'. > >Did he just turn it off for "the match" or he never used it? > >Keith He never used it. He said that it would take a small FPGA circuit that would plug into an existing socket on the DB2 processor board, which would implement the null-move search. He did this with the idea that if they failed in 1997, the chips would have everything he might want to play with for the _next_ match...
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