Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:35:46 11/21/00
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On November 21, 2000 at 01:02:44, Tania Devora wrote: > > >How strong will be Fritz6 or any top chess program like Nimzo8, Rebel, >Chessmaster8000, Crafty, Gandalf etc, etc... running in this super BIG Monster >Machine??? None of those programs would work at all on the SP. It is a message-passing architecture, not SMP. None of the above (nor any commercial engine of any kind) uses message passing (yet). Only a couple of commercial engines can use SMP architectures. > >Could be have 200 or 300 elo ponts more? I think that in Blitz games will be >impossible to win. For a program that could use the hardware, yes, it would be very strong. > >And how about nodes?? In a Pentium II 450 Fritz can search 450,000 to 500,000 >positions per second! what about in this monster machine? How many millions of >nodes per second? 50.000.000 ? 100.000.0000 ??? or more? nowhere near that. message-passing is tough, _especially_ for blitz where the time per move makes the message latency look huge. > >It will be very very interesting to see a Top program kicking humans b... in a >machine like this. > >Thanks! > >Tanya.D
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