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Subject: Re: Using a lot of computers against kramnik(is it possible?)

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 02:20:03 04/18/01

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On April 17, 2001 at 15:40:58, Uri Blass wrote:

>Suppose program X is playing against kramnik.
>
>I think that it may be a good idea to generate a program that generates a tree
>and sends all the positions in the tree to people who want to help the computer
>in the match(I will call it the main program).
>
>The people give program X to analyze the position and return score and depth to
>the main program.
>
>The main program is using all the information about scores and depthes to decide
>about the best move.

So a beginner rated 600 is very happy about a certain move,
and as a real patzer he returns infinite score for his move.

Guess what move is going to get played... ...you create a lot of weak
links by this Uri!

>Yace or Gandalf can be used for this task because they are not preprocessors.
>Most programs need to be changed in order to be used in this way and there
>should be an option to analyze position A when the root position is known as
>position B.
>
>I think that in this way 1000 pIII800's can be clearly better than an SMP
>machine.
>Am I right?

Noop.

Unless you mean an SMP machine with 1000 processors :)

>Uri



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