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Subject: Re: Strongest commercial computerchess in the world?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 10:55:39 01/23/01

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On January 23, 2001 at 09:28:08, chip piller wrote:

>On January 22, 2001 at 18:49:41, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>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.
>
>What is the "alternative approach like P.Conners which don't require SMP"?

P.ConNers and some other chess engines do not require SMP...
(see, for instance: http://lhd.zdnet.com/LDP/LDP/lkmpg/node26.html )
But (rather) run on some other information sharing metaphor like message
passing.  Most attempts at this approach have not been successful.



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