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Subject: Re: Chess 4.0 vs Belle 1973

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:14:33 05/31/00

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On May 31, 2000 at 15:45:25, Joshua Lee wrote:

>
>>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?

Does Mephisto = Lang? I can't keep that sort of stuff straight. But if it's
Lang, then no. He invented all of his own stuff.
-Tom



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