Author: Jerry Adams
Date: 18:25:20 07/14/00
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On July 14, 2000 at 20:57:43, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Thanks for this straight answer, which is all i wanted to know, inspite of others assigning some malicious intention to my question.
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