Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:23:04 07/16/00
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On July 16, 2000 at 19:13:08, Jorge Pichard wrote: >FIDE Champion now have the best training partner available for less than >$4,000.00 from Tiger Direct or any other supplier, a Dual Pentium 850 Mhz system >and combining that with Deep Junior. Now for training purpose, the FIDE Champ >doesn't need to apply Anti-Computer Strategic system, since the object here is >to play normal chess at Tournament Time Control, and finally become more >tactical alert. By training against this Concrete tactical monster, the FIDE >Champ, after several months of training, will learn to beat Leko using pure >tactical maneuvers. The Deep Junior machine from Dortmund would pound the stuffings out of that combination. Absolutely tear it to shreds. No question. To use that combination to train and to assume it would help in future contests would be the folly of ruination. I think that is another mistake that GM's might be making. They buy a fairly fast PC and train against it with some chess programs. But one of these $40,000.00 screaming super servers are not in the same league. I heard that Kasparov trained to play against Deep Blue using home computers. If true (and it's only a rumor I read somewhere) it would be ludicrously absurd. The machines being entered in these contests are PC's in name tag only. They have nothing to do with 'PC' and everything to do with "Departmental Server." These machines are not what you do your work on. They are what the Eastern Division of your company does its database work on, if you work for a large corporation. A dual 850MHz!! Now that's hilarious. Of course, it would pound me or any average chess player senseless. But it is not even in the same magnitude with the hardware used in these tournaments. The P.Conners machine had (I believe) 300 CPU's and the Deep Junior machine 8. They use different approaches, but one thing they have in common is that their hardware is absolutely awesome.
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