Author: Chris Hull
Date: 00:13:57 12/04/00
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On December 02, 2000 at 16:10:46, stuart taylor wrote: >On December 02, 2000 at 12:06:17, Georg Langrath wrote: > >>It is interesting how strong chesscomputers will be in future only depending on >>hardware. Couldn’t you get an idea if you let two computers play against each >>others with auto 232? One of the computer had usual time controls and the other >>ten times longer time. Then you see what ELO the computer got that had the long >>time controls. In that way you could foresee how strong computers could get, >>when they are ten times faster than today. >> >>Georg > >Better still would be if games can be played the equivalent of tournament >timings at 1 terrahertz, By that, I mean 100 ghz. >i.e. you would need to give a 1ghz computer 200 hours per 40 moves. >This, by the way is much much slower than Deeper Blue was, but I am always >curious if DB would have stood up to it in practice. >DR. Hyatt would always say "of course it would". But I think it is worth trying. >Maybe it would triumph convincingly over DB. Although it gives not much more >than 3-ply more than 1 Ghz. >S.Taylor I don't think your experiment is going to work as well as you think it would. Not only do you need to give it 100x more time to think, to simulate a 100GHz processor but you need 100x more memory, say 400GB of RAM and 100x more disk space about 10TB and you need to simulate those 8-piece tablebases. Chris
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