Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:38:27 01/25/04
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On January 25, 2004 at 20:04:16, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >- - in a famous German forum the kids are on the streets and they shout: > >These old-fashioned Cray Blitz and Deep Blue monuments won't be "disqualified" >by their authors with actualized Elo numbers. > >Is that true? Would these legends lose badly against today's elite of >computerchess programs? > >I'm waiting! > >Rolf I don't believe _any_ of them would "lose badly". Any "super-program" from deep thought through Cray Blitz would be very tough opponents for today's programs. However, hardware is beginning to catch up. Someone just pointed out on a chess server last night that this quad opteron system I have is about the same speed as the Cray T90 I ran on in 1995, in terms of raw nodes per second (6-7M back then, 7-8M typically on the quad opteron). So it is now probable that Crafty could actually win a match from Cray Blitz on a T90 with 32 CPUs, assuming I use the quad opteron. My quad xeon 700 got ripped by the same machine a couple of years back, however, so it would still be dangerous. I can't say much about how it would compare to other commercial programs as I didn't run those tests with very little test time to play with the T90. The superiority of today's programs over the super-computers of 1995 are mainly mythical, IMHO. I suspect the games would be a _lot_ more interesting than some would believe. Of course, there is little chance to test such a hypothesis since most old programs are long-retired, and such hardware is not readily available today.
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