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Subject: Re: BOB

Author: Bruce Moreland

Date: 19:47:33 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 21:01:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

Whether or not the software was good is a point of religion, and regarding this
issue, I am agnostic in the strictest sense.  What you say may be true.  It may
be false.  I don't think it's possible to know.

bruce

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



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