Author: John B
Date: 23:57:11 08/29/04
Go up one level in this thread
If I recall the authors of DB were rather new at writing chess playing software. They did have expert players advise them. DB strength was perhaps based more on brute force than brilliance. Remember the game I guess in the 1st series where it had pinned itself in a corner and had no clue why it was such a bad move? This was considred a programming bug aka undocumented feature and corrected prior to the rematch. I don't think 200 Mnps/sec is required with a strong engine to beat the no longer in existence DB. Wasn't it Kasparov that said he thinks at 1 Nps, but it is always the best move? If you believe Kurzweil et al Kasparov thinks at 100 trillion bogomips give or take an order of magnitude. Basically it is a mixture or the quality or the software or wetware and the processor speed or in the case of the later the number of cups of coffee consumed.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.