Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Hiarcs 7.32's Depth compared to Deep Thought

Author: Joshua Lee

Date: 12:41:17 08/24/00

Go up one level in this thread


On August 24, 2000 at 10:14:05, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On August 23, 2000 at 23:20:35, Joshua Lee wrote:
>
>
>Where did I say that?

Say what??

 And how could we answer that, since Deep Thought's
>hardware was faster than _any_ PC-type machine available today, even including
>machines like the 8-way xeons.  And that is only deep thought.

How is their hardware faster but their search speed slower?? Was there that much
more knowledge in DT's software than in readily available software now?
>
>I simply said that I would take _their_ 12 ply search over _any_ 12 ply search
>by another program.  They didn't use null-move or any other speculative form
>of forward pruning.  The only mistakes they made were horizon mistakes that
>everybody makes, and they made fewer than the rest due to their search
>extensions.

I have an idea what about crafty? You know your software better than anybody
else, How is it different from Cray Blitz and Cray Blitz to DT if that makes it
easier?



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.