Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 16:32:06 07/16/00
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On July 16, 2000 at 19:23:04, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. > I realize that there is no comparison but a GM like Khalifman can allow 20 Minutes per moves and get the same result from a Dual 850 Mhz, instead of investing $150,000.00 Dollars on a Primergy with 8 X 500 Mhz. Pichard. >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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