Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:57:56 06/22/01
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On June 22, 2001 at 19:03:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >On June 22, 2001 at 13:16:10, derrick gatewood wrote: > >>I am not talking about little things that amount to almost no change in playing >>strength. I am talking about techniques or different algorithms that make the >>program many times faster or make it 100+ points stronger by implementing one >>thing. I am only talking about software, not hardware breakthroughs too. >>Thanks for your time. >According to the SSDF list my own creature Chess Tiger has improved by 74 elo >points in approx. 18 months. That's the difference in rating between Gambit >Tiger 2.0 and Chess Tiger 12.0 (with some uncertainty though). > >I would not call this a breakthrough, but chess programs are improving, little >by little. > >I don't expect any breakthrough in the future, but one thing for sure: last >year's programs are outdated, and it repeats over and over every year. Not sure why hardware "doesn't count" anyway. But consider: Suppose you get 50 ELO per year from hardware. A very reasonable supposition. Suppose you get 50 ELO per year from software. A very reasonable supposition. Hardly revolutionary. But in one year those two small advances would change [for instance] a 2400 IM to a 2500 GM if a human could do it. And in ten years? **shudder**
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