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Subject: Re: Chess 4.0 vs Belle 1973

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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