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Subject: Re: interesting quote from article...

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 18:20:25 10/05/00

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On October 05, 2000 at 18:37:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

Yes I am sure it will as well. In fact, the Rebel Tiger II beta searches quite
quickly, and is very strong due to this fact.



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