Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:37:06 10/05/00
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On October 05, 2000 at 17:23:27, Dan Ellwein wrote: >browsing through the article, 'A Grandmaster Chess Machine' - 1990 > >written by Hsu, Anantharaman, Campbell, and Nowatzyk > >was this quote... > >"Speed is the key to work now under way at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research >Center, where the next-generation machine [Deep Blue?] is now being designed. >It should outcalculate its predecessor by a factor of at least 1,000. The >machine we have in mind will therefore examine more than a billion positions per >second, enough to search 14 or 15 plies deep in most cases and from 30 to 60 >plies in forcing lines. If the observed relation between processing speed and >playing strength holds, the next-generation machine will play at a 3400 level, >about 800 points above today's Deep Thought and 500 points above Kasparov's >rating record." > >are there any chess programs today - > >Rebel >Tiger >Chessmaster 7000 >Shredder >Junior >Fritz >Nimzo >Crafty > >and others... > >that can look 15 to 16 plies in the middle game ( supposedly like Deep Blue >did)... > >thanks > >PilgrimDan Nope... In a few years, almost certainly, however.
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