Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Strongest commercial computerchess in the world?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 16:59:20 01/22/01

Go up one level in this thread


On January 22, 2001 at 18:49:41, Dann Corbit wrote:

>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?

I think you'd called Deep Blue private ware that was used for a commercial.
Almost as big a comercial success as "give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything".

Pete

>
>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.



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.