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Subject: Re: Position from game 1 of first DB-Kasparov match

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:40:48 01/18/00

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On January 18, 2000 at 18:03:10, Chris Carson wrote:

>On January 18, 2000 at 17:00:41, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On January 18, 2000 at 16:43:39, Chris Carson wrote:
>>
>>>Source: http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/meet/html/d.3.1f.html
>>>Source: http://www.sciam.com/explorations/042197chess/
>>>
>>>Program      Ver   Date      Rating     NPS
>>>Chip Test          1985      ??????     50K
>>>Deep Thought 0.01  May 1985  ??????     700K
>>>Deep Thought 0.02  Nov 1988  USCF 2551  720K
>>>Deep Thought       May 1989  ??????     750K
>>>Deep Thought II    May 1991  USCF 2600+ 6.5M  Kasp. says Fide 2450-2500
>>>Deep Blue    Proto May 1993  ??????     100M
>>>Deep Blue          Feb 1996  TPR 2650   100M
>>>Deeper Blue        May 1997  TPR 2840   200M
>>>
>>>Best Regards,
>>>Chris Carson
>>
>>
>>The "deep blue proto" is wrong.  It used deep thought hardware.  And hit a max
>>of 6 M nodes per second, although Hsu reported that they hardly ever used this
>>configuration in real games...  DB itself didn't play any games at all until
>>1996, as that was when the first batch of chips (new DB chips) became available
>
>Oops, Cut and paste error.  :)
>
>Should add:
>
>Deep Blue Jr       1997    ??????    10M
>
>Best Regards,
>Chris Carson


In that case 10M is probably wrong.  DB Jr used 16 chess processors, which would
give a peak of 32-36M.  Aha... Hsu always factored that by 1/3, so 10M is in the
right range...



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