Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:29:48 12/04/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 14:55:39, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 04, 2000 at 13:50:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 04, 2000 at 10:28:42, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>>On December 04, 2000 at 10:03:12, walter irvin wrote: >>> >>>>i remember back in the 80's i was reading where hitec could see 186,00 nps .i >>>>remember thinking (man would i like to have that to play against ) .im just >>>>wondering if pc's are actually as strong or stronger than the mainframes were at >>>>that time ?? >>> >>>They are stronger than hitech. >>>Hitech was probably a program at the same level of Fritz3(p90) inspite of the >>>fact that fritz3(p90) is slower in nps. >>> >>>Programs of today are also faster than hitech in nps. >>> >>>I believe that the best pc's of today are also better than all the mainframes of >>>the 80's even if they are not faster in nps. >>> >>>Uri >> >>I disagree... This would also include deep thought at around 16 million >>nodes per second, and _that_ would be a handful for any program around today. > >I do not know about the number of 16 million nodes per second in the 80's. > >The number that my memory tells me are 750000 nodes or 2000000 nodes per second >in the match of Deep thought against kasparov and I remember that it was in >1989. > >Nodes per second is also not everything in chess so I believe that inspite of >being slower in nodes per second the chess programs of today are better. > >Uri If I recall correctly, the version of deep thought running at the 1989 WCCC event in Alberta used 16 processors. I am not certain and have not gone back thru my archives to be sure... But whatever the speed, it was quite deadly.
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