Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:43:51 03/03/00
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On March 03, 2000 at 06:46:35, leonid wrote: >It sound to me otherwise. If hardware will be from one day to the next one more >speeded by factor of 1000 or 10000 everything will be changed dramatically. For >now we must wait more that 1 year for some doubling of the computer speed. Yes, but if you read the article again carefully, you will see that they are not claiming an immediate speedup of 10000. Maybe a speedup of 3 in several years, which just continues Moore's law. >approach could replate many advanced pruning technincs. If, for instance, at the >end of the game, when we have already only few pieces on the board, computer in >natural way will be able to see around 18 plies deep, there is the possibility >that all the database for the end of the game could be forgotten. It is normal That _might_ be reasonable if endgame databases are only probed at the root of the tree. But most programs probe them during the search, so they should definitely not be taken out simply because computers are getting faster. If anything, they become more useful as computers get faster. >to expect that speed of thinking and precision of chess game run on PC will >overwhelm for ever every human in this Planet. At that time the best chess game >will be not the game that play better game (all of them will be better that >human) but those that are only bug free. I disagree. You have to remember that processors today are thousands of times faster than processors 20 years ago, but that doesn't trivialize the importance of a good algorithm. TSCP is pretty bug-free, but that doesn't mean it can compete with, say, Junior. -Tom
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