Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 06:12:16 06/06/01
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On June 06, 2001 at 07:40:02, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On June 06, 2001 at 06:58:28, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>We're only one year of development further now, and the hardware >>will be twice as fast, *no more*. Not even a ply more for Fritzie. > >Correcting myself: > >4 x 500 vs 8 x 1000 is 4 times faster, not two. Nah, but my assumption is that speedup of 8 processors isn't much bigger as speedup from 2 processors, so forget that difference. They all lock the hashtable so that's going to waste loads of times too. >Thats a little over a ply. (gee, big difference considering how >deep it goes) > >I don't doubt that Frans Morsch will be working hard to get it >to play as good as possible vs. a human, but I doubt it will >be enough. > >The 2000 NK result must have been a lesson, but Frans is a professional >and must no doubt have anticipated it. The games were about marketing, >after all. >For Frans the chance of winning his 'own' national championships >must have been a huge opportunity and the dream of every chessplayer. >I think that he will have done the best he could back then. Definitely. >The chance of playing for the world championship is even better, >but there's only so much you can do. Last time it wasn't enough. >I wonder if anyone here who knows Frans personally or has met him >at CC events know how he feels about this, the NK results and the >play of Fritz vs humans. Yes all programmers visiting a world championship have met him. As a dutchman i of course see him way more. >He's without a doubt one of the best in his field, so there's always >a chance he suprises us, but I've got the feeling he would have done >that already. Frans is a professional chessprogrammer for 20 years now? Well it must be close to that. You can't come up with a big surprise suddenly after 20 years of fulltime work, because he would have been busy with that surprise years ago already then and brought it sooner. The most important thing for frans is not playing kramnik. He'll be only busy preparing for WMCCC end of august 2001. I'm pretty sure of that. Best regards, Vincent. >-- >GCP
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