Author: Alain Lyrette
Date: 13:22:55 06/20/99
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On June 20, 1999 at 15:36:09, blass uri wrote: > >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 What is wrong with improving both the software AND te hardware?After all the knowledge based programs need a minimun of speed and the fasr searchers need a minimun of knowledge...hehehe....
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