Author: Pete Galati
Date: 21:13:53 11/18/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 23:57:40, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On November 18, 2000 at 22:47:33, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>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 >> > >If you know the guys responsible, then you _know_ they didn't do anything >"half-way"... > Considering the brutal amount of computer power behind the Deep Blue program, could they have acomplished basically the same thing _without_ a good programs? Would the hardware have gotten around "half-way" efforts in programming, or would the whole event have fallen on it's face with a "half-way" programming effort. Pete
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