Author: blass uri
Date: 12:36:09 06/20/99
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On June 20, 1999 at 13:29:47, Peter Kappler wrote: >On June 20, 1999 at 13:14:24, odell hall wrote: > >>Hi CCC >> >> >> I Guess no one has any lame excuses about this result, since the time control >>was 40/2. I think it now clear to everyone the computers have reached the >>grandmaster level!!. Show me a team of internation masters that could achieve >>such results in a million years! And this was not one game!! , but Five! > > >I've been told that Vaganian won, bringing the final score to 2.5-2.5. A nice >result for the computers - certainly better than I expected. > >But, keep in mind that CilkChess played on a 240-processor Alpha machine, while >Ferret, Fritz, and Junior played on quad-Xeons. Only Shredder played on a >single CPU machine. > >What you saw today was a glimpse of what commercial programs will be able to do >on single-CPUs in perhaps 3 years. I do not agree shredder is probably not worse than the other and it is going to become commercial. The result proved that software is more important then hardware(some programs with good hardware scored 50% or even less than it. The prediction that there is no chance for a micro to be the world champion was clearly wrong. I think that it may be better if programmers concentrate on improving the software instead of improving the hardware. Uri
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