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Subject: Re: BOB

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:01:56 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 17:30:37, Garry Evans wrote:

>On November 18, 2000 at 16:54:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 18, 2000 at 15:45:32, walter irvin wrote:
>>
>>>if you had a cray super computer in your house , so your time would not be
>>>limited .what kind of chess program would you create?? another Cray Blitz or
>>>would it be more like crafty .Also if you played it on ICC what blitz rating
>>>would you expect that you would get ? how many nps do you imagine you would get
>>>if it were the 32 processor Cray ??? I think it would be about as interesting as
>>>the second comming of deep blue .Also what do you think your chances to be world
>>>champion with that beast be??
>>
>>
>>The program would be a hybrid approach.  To run fast on the Cray requires
>>a lot of vectorization throughout the program.  Bitmaps are cute, but they
>>don't run fast on a Cray without some vector stuff as well.
>>
>>NPS?  CB could do 7M.  Crafty should be able to do the same.  It would
>>be tough... but it wouldn't be Deep Blue by any stretch.
>
>  I think Deep Jr. and Deep Fritz are performing nearly as well as Deep blue
>has. NPS is not everything, I think the Software is just as important? Am I
>wrong?

Short answer:  yes.  :)

DB had both good software _and_ good hardware, contrary to what some would
have you believe.


>
>
>  Winning the
>>WC?  Difficult question.  Such a machine won it twice, of course.  A third
>>time?  who knows?



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