Author: stuart taylor
Date: 21:00:58 09/05/00
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On September 05, 2000 at 21:47:03, pavel wrote: >On September 05, 2000 at 20:59:04, Jonathan Lee wrote: > >>By using the latest Personal Computer at 1 GHZ, you could compare moves of >>Deeper Blue (versus Kasparov) for "many hours". >>What you do is put the same middle game position, and let your computer run for >>hours to match the same move as IBM. >>If there is a match in 24 hours, that would be 480 GHZ. >>24 hours divided by 3 minutes per move equals 480. >>Fritz 6 and the other contenders are recommended. >>Jonathan (67th message) > >whose gonna waste so much time to play such a long game? >atleast i wont. >IMO its pointless and there is nothing to prove to anyone. >besides you dont cmpare with DB with fritz or any other commercial chess >softwares. ( no!! I am not saying DB is way too strong for all the others). > >this is because DB was a hardware solution (mainly). and most other commercial >chess softwares are software solution. > >as i said there is nothing to prove ;) > >pavel Why is there nothing to prove? Hardware solution costs a good bit more than the software solution, a few thousandfold, so if the software solution is looking anything near to a similar level, then DB has to prove its money's worth. And as long as that hardware (DB) is still thought to be that little bit stronger, it just MAY be worth the extra few million (or many million). But even that looks very questionable, so we might prove that we don't need the hardware solution. If DB is not "way too strong for all the others", then it might just be that with the equivalent of 480ghz, the software might play greater chess, due to the wisdom of the software programmers. Better still might be if they could make software to be maximized for 480ghz use. At the momment, things are maximised for + - tournament timings on less than a GHZ, therefore, much longer thinking time may not add very much relatively. But who knows? it might add enough! I don't know if it is true, but CSTAL was claiming that with much more powerful hardware, their program would get much better. If that is really true, then perhaps 480GHZ with CSTAL might prove way above all other software on anything, and also above Deeper Blue. Deeper Blue is/was maximised for all the power and speed given to it? Big deal! I don't know if it was worthy of all that power. Maybe something maximised for much less (even 480ghz) could do even better. S.Taylor
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