Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 20:05:55 06/06/01
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On June 06, 2001 at 20:11:57, Jesper Antonsson wrote: >On June 06, 2001 at 06:31:03, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On June 06, 2001 at 04:22:34, Tanya Deborah wrote: >> >>>Too, i believe that Deep Fritz is a bit better, (running in 8 procesor machine) >>>than Deep Blue 97 version...(the same that won against Kasparov) Is this >>>right? >> >>The truth is the no-one _really_ knows, and everybody who posts >>a claim here is just guessing. >> >>I do think it's reasonable to say (i.e. I'm just guessing too) >>that Deep Blue had more knowledge, although that of Fritz is >>probably better tuned. Tactically DB was extremely sound because >>they did no pruning, but Fritz will be outsearching it in raw plies, >>but those are riskier. >> >>The conclusion of that is that well, I don't know. And neither >>does anyone else. > >Well, IBM had a a couple of really bright academics that worked many years >full time on the problem, with additional support from IBM staff and a good >grandmaster to do opening preparation. They could do complex eval essentially >for free in hardware and still reach 200M nps average case. Sure, they did >not do null-move (I assume that this is what you refer to as "pruning"), but >they probably had good reasons to. > >I think it is safe to assume that an 8M nps (or whatever they get >from the 8-way combo) Fritz machine can't touch DBs strength. I doubt Fritz >would be better even given equal NPS, which is perhaps 6 years away or more. >So, in 2007, when 10 years has passed since DBs last match, we *might* have >a new computer combo that matches DBs strength, but probably not before that. >I agree we don't *know*, but this is a reasonable guess. > >Jesper Good Post! I quite agree! Altough at equal NPS I think it would be very interesting to watch:-) Terry
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