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Subject: Re: What is the average NPS and Depth of Top Programs?

Author: Kevin Stafford

Date: 14:26:37 07/26/01

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>
>And how can you explain why Deep Blue is still the stronger chess machine in the
>world: Do you think that it depends from its knowledge or from its pure brute
>force power of fast calculation ...
>
>Regards

Well, this is hard to say, given that the machine supposedly no longer exists,
and never really played any modern programs. Assuming its true however (and I
believe it is), there is a difference between speed gained through hardware, and
speed gained through software. There's no need to gut your evaluation function
for speed purposes when you have a few hundred specially designed processors at
your disposal..

I'm also willing to bet that the eval on DB had a good bit of positional
knowledge built in, but I suppose we will never know.

-Kevin



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