Author: David Blackman
Date: 04:49:10 01/22/00
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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 ???? Hardware and software are both very important. At the moment we have the illusion that hardware is more important, because all the "major" programs have software of very similar quality. But if you take something strong, like a 16 bit version of Fritz or Genius, on the 286, and play it against something an inexperienced chess programmer throws together in one weekend, then the 286 will probably beat any hardware we have now. However, if you had hardware that produced 2E15 NPS, you wouldn't have to do anything very clever to get 2900 elo. Sargon would probably be good enough. But this speed is millions of times faster than Deep Blue. I don't think we will see anything this fast for many years. There are great untried methods. Maybe they are even good enough for a 286 to be stronger than Deep Blue. But i don't know what they are :-(
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