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Subject: Re: interesting quote from article...

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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