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Subject: Re: Super GM Result for Computers!!

Author: blass uri

Date: 14:40:51 06/20/99

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On June 20, 1999 at 16:22:55, Alain Lyrette wrote:

>
>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....

The problem is that you need time to do a program that can use effectively more
than 1 processor and it may be better to use the same time to improve the
software and maybe get better results.

Uri



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