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Subject: Re: Simply Amazing today's P.C. calculates faster than 1989 Deep Thought !

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:38:05 01/16/02

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On January 15, 2002 at 23:40:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 15, 2002 at 21:46:45, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>It feels good to read the history of computer chess.
>>
>>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/comphis.htm
>
>
>This isn't nearly as amazing as the fact that they could do 13 years ago
>what the very fastest machines of today can do _now_.
>
>:)

I do not find it amazing but the fastest machines of today can play better
thanks to better software and better hardware.

Nodes per second are not everything.
The hardware of 1989 could not detect repetition in the last plies when the
hardware of today has no problem.

It is also clear that there was a big progress in the software from 1989.

Uri



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