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Subject: Re: Strongest commercial computerchess in the world?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:49:41 01/22/01

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On January 22, 2001 at 18:39:20, Georg Langrath wrote:

>It shall be possible to use eight processors in Deep Fritz. Would that be the
>strongest commercial chesscomputer available today? It would be rather logical
>if it was. But I guess that it should be a disapponment.
>
>Why? Because I think that Chessbase has tried deep Fritz with strongest possible
>machine. And if it had been that strong as you would think it could be, I think
>that Chessbase had noised about it. Only a reflection.

I don't think we have anywhere near enough evidence for anything more than a
wild guess.

There are several SMP chess engines that I know of:
Commercial:
Fritz
Deep Junior
Diep

Not commercial:
Crafty
Amy

Also alternative approaches like P.Conners which don't require SMP.

Consider also Deep Blue.  Is it a "Commercial Computer Chess" program?

In 4 years, there will be 64 CPU Alpha machines with 20464's and terabytes of
memory.  Those will play chess rather well, if someone decides to compile for
them.  Now, tens of millions of dollars is outside the pocketbook of your
average citizen, but that would be a potential commercial chess system.




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