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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