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Subject: Re: In the year 2015, PC's will be fast as Deeper Blue??? (bold prediction)

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:11:11 03/03/00

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On March 03, 2000 at 00:11:45, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On March 02, 2000 at 18:26:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>(n) number correctly.  Looking at the logs, the hardware searches 4-6 plies
>
>In some cases, it was even higher.  From a quick lookthrough of the logs, I saw
>depths as high as 13(7) in some cases.  There may be a few even higher somewhere
>that I missed.
>
>>depending on the base software search depth.  When you see 11(6) that is a
>>full-width 17 ply search, which is awesome.


Right.  I hadn't noticed the 7's before.  DT used to do only 4-5, which is
the machine I saw many times "in person".  Apparently the speed differences
in the real DB (more processors, faster SP processors) changed this a bit to
reach 7.

It is all still awesome IMHO.



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