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Subject: Re: Chess 4.0 vs Belle 1973

Author: Joshua Lee

Date: 12:45:25 05/31/00

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>Some 'perspective".  In 1973 chess 4.0 was searching under 1,000 noded per
>second.  The fastest it ever searched was 2,600 nps running on a cyber176 in
>1976.
>
>I don't think _any_ program of today would lose to any program of the 1970's
>as the hardware advantage of today's machines is simply far too great.

I've been meaning to ask you since your field is computer science, if you had
read Botvinnik's Computer's Chess and Long Range Planning? It seems to me that
nobody used Misha's approach to their program. I don't think pioneer played any
games but did possibly mephisto follow in it's footsteps so to speak?



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