Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:51:21 01/05/01
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On January 05, 2001 at 14:28:21, Uri Blass wrote: >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 We've been waiting for this to happen for 30 years. We aren't there yet. I don't think we will be there in another 30 years. The holes _must_ be filled or the programs are going to have problems with anti-computer humans _forever_ no matter how fast they go. DB1 should have proven that. it was 200X faster than the fastest program of today. And it fell into the same problems in the first Kasparov match.
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