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Subject: Re: Have there been any breakthroughs in computer chess in the past year?

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 06:55:22 06/23/01

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On June 22, 2001 at 15:30:19, Graham Laight wrote:

>Don't know whether the increased prevalence of "Deep" (parallel processing)
>programs counts for these purposes.
>
>There are now 3 strong ones - Fritz, Junior and Crafty. Others will be following
>soon. That's enough to generate some degree of competition.
>
>-g
>

SMP's have been around for awhile, however, I agree with you that this is a
break through for the commercials.   I would add that SMP Rebel and Tiger are
all ready, but not on the market.  Not sure about Shredder.  :)

Best Regards,
Chris Carson

>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.



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