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Subject: Re: best chess programmers

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:00:18 07/21/00

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This thread is going nowhere fast. I don't agree with anything you say, but it
would be a waste of my time to explain why. But here are two quick comments that
will hopefully make you feel incredibly stupid.
-Tom


On July 21, 2000 at 10:13:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Sure I am.  Should I tell you when the first SMP PC came along?  Of course,

Yes, please do tell me when the first SMP PC came along. Because I distinctly
remember reading computer magazines when I was ~10 years old, and they
advertised SMP 386 computers. And that was a long, long time before Crafty.

>>Just face it, you didn't invent SMP PC chess programs. If you think I'd believe
>>that crap, you might as well start telling me that you invented the Internet.
>I never said I did.  I did write the first shared memory parallel search that

Har. Actually, you did say it. Direct quote:
"With plenty of innovations from rotated bitmaps to being
the first SMP (PC) program running..."

Or did you mean that other SMP PC programs didn't run? They all seg faulted?

-Tom



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