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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