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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