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Subject: Re: hardware vs software

Author: Michael Cummings

Date: 16:46:09 01/21/00

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On January 21, 2000 at 19:28:38, walter irvin wrote:

>which is more important ?????? is it posible that a program written on a 286
>25mhz 4mg ram could be stronger than deep blue ????? is it posible that a
>program like sargon ran on a machine that produced 2,000,000,000,000,000 nps
>could reach 2900 elo ?? perhaps there are great untried methods that will
>produce major elo jumps ????

You need good hardware, plus a good program. Some programs are just not that
good.

Same as a human player who can see so many moves, but just not have the skill to
play well.



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