Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:28:24 05/31/00
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On May 31, 2000 at 17:14:33, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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 I don't think all the mephisto's were Lang's... but I agree... I don't think any program was ever based on the concepts in Botvinnik's book. Perhaps not even Pioneer after some of the output it produced. :)
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