Author: Pete Galati
Date: 15:31:02 01/23/01
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On January 23, 2001 at 13:55:39, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. This is probably an old news type of question, but is P.Conners available anywhere? Pete
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