Author: Amir Ban
Date: 06:10:56 01/16/00
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On January 16, 2000 at 02:17:21, James B. Shearer wrote: >On January 15, 2000 at 00:49:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 14, 2000 at 21:42:48, James B. Shearer wrote: >> > >>> I agree with Robertson. I don't see much evidence that Hsu has any >>>extremely rare skills. It's not like many similar attempts with equivalent >>>backing failed miserably. Also Hsu's project didn't match the projections in >>>his 1990 Scientific American article. >>> James B. Shearer >> >> >>What did he miss, other than "time". He projected 1 billion nodes per second. >>DB-2 hit that peak. He projected beating Kasparov. He did it about 2 years >>later than expected. But he did do it... > > Hsu's projections in the 1990 Scientific American article for the next >generation machine due in 1992 were 1000 chess chips, 3 million positions per >second per chip, 1 billion positions per second overall and 3400 rating. The >actual results for DB-2 which arrived in 1997 (5 years late) were 256 chess >chips, 2-2.5 million positions per second per chip, 200 million positions per >second overall and rating 2900. So he missed rather badly. > James B. Shearer Deep Blue achieved a 2900 rating ? Where ? In Myanmar ? Amir
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