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Subject: Re: chess programs 300 elo + if

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 16:13:30 08/06/00

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On August 05, 2000 at 21:37:32, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On August 05, 2000 at 21:21:18, walter irvin wrote:
>
>>      programs would be much better if there was more money in computer chess
>>.it is hard for some one to justify speeding the time required to make a GM
>>program . when you could be making serious money doing something much simpler
>>.deep blue was such a project with top notch people and resources and look what
>>they did .if the top minds were put to the task a world champ could run on a
>>pIII 500 128 mg ram .
>
>I seriously doubt it, if Deep blue was running at the same speed of a PIII 500
>Mhz 128 SDRAM it would not have scored a single win against Kasparov or any of
>the top 3 GM's at Standard time control. If Deep Blue program was able to run
>in a comparable PIII 500 Mhz computer, either Fritz 6 or Chess Tiger 12.0e
>could easily have defeated Deep Blue.

Of course, these comments have absolutely no basis in fact whatsoever and I hope
a fight doesn't break out because of it.

-Tom



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