Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 16:20:50 07/31/01
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On July 31, 2001 at 07:01:15, Uri Blass wrote:
>On July 31, 2001 at 03:23:47, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On July 31, 2001 at 02:59:10, Joshua Lee wrote:
>>
>>>Is it possible to use the VIA 800Mhz chips which don't require a fan (i think)
>>>in parallel to where any program now could outsearch any Deep Blue of the past?
>>>
>>>It might take a few thousand chips but if it looks deeper it should mostly be
>>>better.
>>>
>>>I do know that there were supposed to be hundreds of parameters so i would bet
>>>it is better positionally than most comps now
>>
>>
>>???
>>
>>What they call a "parameter" is for example the value of a white rook on A1.
>>There are 6 piece types, 2 sides, and 64 squares. That makes already 768
>>parameters.
>>
>>Hey I've got thousands of parameters in Tiger then!
>>
>>They were better in search, that's for sure, because of their processing power.
>>
>>Better in evaluation? That remains to be proved.
>
>Better in search?
>It also remains to be proved.
>
>More nodes per second does not mean better in search because other programs may
>have better search rules.
Naturally, I believe that their search is inferior to the ones we have in
microcomputer programs.
What I mean is that their search could go much deeper (or much wider, whatever)
due to their huge advantage in processing power.
The word "better" was meant to be applied to the combination of their search
with their hardware.
Sorry it was not clear.
Christophe
>I believe they were inferior in evaluation.
>The size of the evaluation function is not the important thing.
>The important things is to get the right numbers in the evaluation function.
>
>If you have wrong tables the fact that you have big tables is not going to help
>you.
>
>Uri
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