Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 23:55:49 11/03/00
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On November 03, 2000 at 23:04:42, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 03, 2000 at 20:59:47, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>On November 03, 2000 at 19:46:32, walter irvin wrote: >> >>>On November 03, 2000 at 19:43:58, walter irvin wrote: >>> >>>>there may never be a way to know, but if there was a list of great chess >>>>programs by elo ratings .mainframes ,pc's all put together .what would be the >>>>top ten programs of all time .here is my list,not in any order. >>>>deeper blue >>>>deep junior >>>>cray blitz >>>>crafty 17.13 smp >>>>deep shredder >>>>gamit tiger >>>>fritz 7 >>>>century 3 >>>>hiarcs 7.32 >>>i left out the king cm8000 how could i for get the king?? >>>>the single processor programs run on 1 gig athlon >>>>the deep pc's and crafty on 8 way box >>>> >>>>i think with that type of hardware the ave elo would be 2700+ if you include >>>>deeper blue who's elo was over 2800 >> >>When I think of all-time great programs, I think of the ones that got us to >>where we are today. Not today's programs. >> >>For one to be considered an all-time great in football or baseball, they are >>considered past their prime, and no way to competeing in today's game. >> >>Do you really think that Walter Payton could sustain the type hits given out by >>today's football players? Not i think not.. just roll out the stretcher.. >> >>When I think of the all-time great programs, I think of DeepBlue, DeepThought, >>Cray-Blitz, Sargon, GNUChess, MChess, Genius, and the list goes on. >> >>Todays programs have only proven that they are better than the others due to >>hardware, and the programming knowledge learned from the earlier programs. >> >>Boxing would have been no where if it were not for the likes of Ali, Foreman, >>Chavez, and Fraizer. >> >>Don't you agree? > > > >By your definition I would say that Richard Lang's programs between 1985 and >1992 are the all time greats. > >They are still an incredible challenge to many amateur programs. > > > > Christophe I agree with you there in so far as you don't consider the big iron machines of the 80s. Richard Lang's programs where quite amazing. JW
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