Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:57:43 07/14/00
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On July 14, 2000 at 14:27:05, Jerry Adams wrote: >Is Deep junior Grandmaster strength? How should I answer that? Flip a coin? Take a vote? Look at a single good result after several programs had not-so-good results in other human events? It played well most of the time. It got ripped in a way I haven't seen a "Human GM" get ripped in a long time. My answer at present is simply "I don't know yet, I don't have enough data to make up my mind with any certainty, and my instinct still says "no"". Even though DJ played on Hardware that won't be available to the general PC market for at least another three years (it was effectively running on a 5.6 gigahertz processor). It ought to be better than other programs with that hardware. It _might_ even be a GM on that hardware. However, that still has little to do with "Is a PC program a GM?" DJ was doing over 2M nodes per second someone said. I know of hardware where Crafty can hit over 32M nodes per second. Would it be a GM there? Maybe or maybe not. But that also would have little to do with what 'normal' people are running. Cray Blitz _might_ have been a GM 5-8 years ago. But again, that is a special case. And it has nothing to do with the old "PC is a GM" issue... That's my answer at present: I don't know yet...
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