Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 20:43:14 06/09/01
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On June 09, 2001 at 23:16:54, Chris Kantack wrote: >Perhaps I'm missing something....(hence, this post). I'm wondering what all the >excitement is regarding Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz or any other similar match going >on (with Grandmasters) this year. > >As I recall, the 2nd Deep Blue match that IBM had with Garry Kasparov was a very >specialized machine with many processors especially made to process chess >positions. I've heard several times where (the 2nd version) of Deep Blue was >able to calculate 200 million positions per second. > >Now, I've recently read where Deep Fritz (in its recent match against Deep >Junior) was able to calculate (only) 1 million positions per second. > >So now, this autumn, we're to see a match between Kramnik and a computer with a >"chess computational" speed of only 1/200 of what Garry faced in 1997. > >So...like, what's the big deal? Should be an easy win for Kramnik. >(Especially easy as he'll have the program in advance to play with to his >hearts' content.) > >Chris Kantack >http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm This is part of what bothers me about the DB match. People think that chess on any other platform is necessarily boring, because of course, DB has solved chess, or is at least miles ahead of everything else. Independent of whether it is miles ahead of everything else, it's sick that they created this situation and then they *won't play*. bruce
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