Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 18:35:15 07/14/00
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On July 14, 2000 at 21:25:20, Jerry Adams wrote: >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. Dr Bob will always it seems answer a direct question (if it is a serious question) to the best of his ability which I add is considerable. Ignore the other wise guy remarks. They have a inward desire to entertain in a negative way. I don't care for those threads and ignore them. Wayne
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