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Subject: Re: But Not Yet As Good As Deep Blue '97

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:50:06 07/20/00

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On July 20, 2000 at 15:47:53, Ed Schröder wrote:

>On July 20, 2000 at 14:50:48, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On July 20, 2000 at 14:26:16, Chris Carson wrote:
>>
>>>On July 20, 2000 at 13:03:42, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>
>>>>2 years ago a single DB chip played several matches with top commercial
>>>>programs.  This DB chip was running at 1/10th of its normal speed, and yet
>>>>it won 36 out of 40 games.  This has been reported several times here on CCC,
>>>>by several that have heard Hsu and Campbell give talks about the DB hardware.
>>>>
>>>>If it could win 90% of the games running at 1/10th the normal speed for one
>>>>chip, what does 480 chips at full speed get (hint:  4,800 times faster).  Would
>>>>you think it might have a pretty easy time with today's programs?  quads or
>>>>8-way boxes as you want?
>>>>
>>>
>>>Games against P90 machines.  What were the program versions? what were
>>>the settings?  Who was the operator?  Which book was used?  Where are
>>>the games for inspection?  Did the DB team get permission to perform
>>>this tournament and permission to report results?  Were you there?
>>
>>I was there.  The program authors were there.  That was a requirement for the
>>ACM events.  We all sat across the board from each other.  Marty.  Ed.  Richard.
>>Hsu.  Myself.  anybody else you would care to name...
>
>Nah.... you are talking on late 80th's Rebel running on a 5 Mhz 6502
>processor with 32 Kb Ram Rebel doing just 500 NPS. Your point again?
>
>Ed
>


I like the math game...

so lets see.. you were doing 500NPS in 1988?  And today you are doing maybe
500K?  A factor of 1,000?

They were doing 300K in 1988.  They hit 1B in 1997.  1,000,000,000 divided by
300,000 is how many times faster?  3,333 X faster you say?

Now do you get my point?  They have widened the NPS gap by a factor of 3.5
since 1988.

_that_ is my point. The gap has continually _widened_.  _not_ _narrowed_...






>
>>
>>>
>>>This is all mythical at best.  Still no proof and non of the programs
>>>were Deep Junior were they?
>>
>>and your point would be?  Deep Junior is far and away better than any other
>>program playing today?  We can discuss that probability if you want...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>No, but they must fly in yours...  In my neighborhood, DB still flies...
>>>>
>>>
>>>Really, I thought DB was torn apart and in Deep Storage?  :)
>>>
>>>Best regards,
>>>Chris Carson
>>
>>
>>It could play in hours if the price was right. The hardware still exists...



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