Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:28:21 01/05/01
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On January 05, 2001 at 14:03:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On January 05, 2001 at 07:50:42, Mark Schreiber wrote: > >>In the match with v/d Wiel, Rebel is running on P3 866 MHz. Using a faster >>computer would be an improvemnt. Maybe a P4 1.5 GHz. They could also improve >>Rebel to run on dual or multi processor like Junior. The Junior that ran on an 8 >>processor at Dortmund would clobber v/d Wiel. At Dortmund, Junior performed at >>Fide 2700. > > >I doubt _any_ program will "clobber" him. Speed isn't the only issue when you >play a computer-savvy GM. If your program has a hole (and all current programs >have many of them) then speed isn't going to help a bit if the GM knows what he >is doing. I believe that speed is going to help because the holes of chess programs can be covered by deeper search in part of the cases. There are positions when speed will practically not help but getting this positions may be prevented if the computer is faster. Uri
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