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Subject: Re: Back in time

Author: Pham Minh Tri

Date: 15:47:12 08/30/01

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On August 30, 2001 at 08:50:52, Mark Young wrote:

>It has been suggested here that programs have made little progress in the last
>10 years other then hardware speed. Here is the list of top programs 6 years
>ago. Does anyone really think a program of 4, 6 or 10 years ago running on
>modern but equal hardware would have a chance of beating a Junior 7, Deep Fritz,
>Chess Tiger in a match. I think someone is pulling our legs.
>
>If the suggestion that programs have not progressed much is correct, then we
>have been suckered by all programmers who offer us so called better and stronger
>version of their programs.

I don't tell about the matches between the old and new engines (no experience),
but I think almost all new ones should be better to against human. However,
recent good players have much more experience to beat computers than others of 5
years ago. As a result, again, we have no evidence of progress of computer
chess. What do you think?



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