Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 17:25:49 08/30/01
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On August 30, 2001 at 11:28:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On August 30, 2001 at 10:20:12, Mark Young wrote: > >>On August 30, 2001 at 09:51:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>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. >>> >>> >>>I think someone can't read. "slow and steady" is not equal to "little" >>>I _clearly_ said that "there has been no revolutionary ideas in computer chess >>>in a long time. progress has been slow and steady." >>> >>>How you make the giant leap to "little progress" is a mystery only you can >>>answer. >> >>You will answer it for my Bob! Here is your Quote and the full text. >> >>Bob's Statement: >>"Part of the progress has been due >>to incremental changes to chess engines/evaluations/etc, part has been due to >>the hardware speed advances. Probably more of the latter than the former, if >>the truth is known..." >> >> > > > >OK... I give up. Where did I say "there has been little progress in software >over the past 10 years or so."?? > >The above seems to be exactly what I have been saying for many years. Slow >and steady progress in the software, with more rapid progress in the hardware >speeds. > >So again, please answer _the question_ and show me where I said there had been >little software progress in the past 10 years. You haven't shown that so far. > Hi Bob, How do you think about parallel algorithms? Just in few years, many top chess programs apply them to speed up search several times. Is it a little or big progress? Do you consider them as a software or hardware achievement?
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